Although we shouldn’t expect too much of them – we at least expect something worth justifying the download.
MATHCAD PRIME 5.0 RELEASE DATE SOFTWARE
The maintenance releases don’t add very muchĮvery software manufacturer has maintenance releases which tend to be little more than a set of bug-fixes and extra tidbits of functionality to keep users happy between major releases.So where does that leave Mathcad? Will The Mathworks strike a licensing deal with PTC for the Mupad technology or will PTC have to find a replacement symbolic engine for version 15 of Mathcad? Of course, since version 14 of Mathcad was released the owners of this symbolic engine, Sciface Software, were completely bought out by MATLAB makers, The Mathworks, and now The Mathworks use Mupad as the basis for their symbolic toolbox. Mupad was a nice product and, although there were problems with the transition, Mathcad could have done a lot worse in its choice of symbolic engine. There was nothing particularly unusual about this as several other maths packages did exactly the same (MATLAB’s symbolic toolbox immediately springs to mind) but in the transition from v13 to v14, Mathcad swapped the Maple Kernel for Mupad. When I first started working with Mathcad, it came with a cut-down version of the Maple kernel which took care of all of its symbolic calculations. MathCad’s symbolic engine, Mupad, has since been bought by rival math software vendor and maker of MATLAB, The Mathworks.Then we have Maple which was at version 11 back in 2007 and is now at version 13.īefore anyone states the obvious, yes I know version numbers on their own mean very little but the increase in functionality in Mathcad’s competitors over the last 2 years or so has been substantial whereas Mathcad itself has gone nowhere. In the same time MATLAB has seen 5 major new releases going from 2006b to 2009a and Mathematica has been improved beyond recognition in the transformation from version 5.2 to 7.01. Version 14 was released on 12th February 2007 and since then its competitors have gone from strength to strength. PTC’s Mathcad hasn’t seen a major new release in over 2 years.Just recently I have found myself wondering if the product is doomed. So, read the following in the knowledge that the writer is heavily biased. Most of the things I choose to write about Mathcad concern its bugs. Professionally I have had a lot of grief with it and personally I cannot see why anyone who can also choose from Mathematica, MATLAB and Maple (and I am lucky enough to be in this position) would ever bother with it. I’ll start off this post by mentioning that I don’t like PTC’s Mathcad very much and think that is a very weak product compared to its competitors.
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