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Re:Free Wolfram Engine for Developers by ras_west on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @12:30PM (#19971732)
Some things that Wolfram Language does that maxima doesn't: machine learning, image processing, audio processing, time series analysis, user interface construction, build-in data, geo computation, natural language processing....

Maxima is just a computer algebra system- one small part of what Wolfram does.

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Re:Free Wolfram Engine for Developers by gmueckl on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @03:37PM (#19974016)
Are Maxima's CAS algorithms comparable to Mathematica's? I have tried to used Sage and other systems in the past, but Mathematica has always been better at finding solutions for what I tried to do. But I have never used Maxima for real.
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Re:Free Wolfram Engine for Developers by reikonomusha on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @04:09PM (#19974363)
Maxima is a serious CAS and can do serious work, but it’s a few decades behind the latest R&D. It can do algebra and calculus usefully.
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