What is the difference between matlab & maple?

[woundedtiger4]

Are they both same? I have been using maple from past couple of months in order to find solutions & to plot graphs etc & I am quite comfortable with it. If Matlab is better than maple then is it hard to use MATLAB & is the syntax of MATLAB same as maple?

 

[jhae2.718]

MATLAB is oriented towards numerical work ("MATrix LABoratory") whereas Maple is a computer algebra system (i.e. symbolic manipulation). MATLAB also contains Simulink for controls work.

The two programs have different syntax. I haven't used much Maple, but MATLAB isn't very hard.

 

[woundedtiger4]

MATLAB is oriented towards numerical work ("MATrix LABoratory") whereas Maple is a computer algebra system (i.e. symbolic manipulation). MATLAB also contains Simulink for controls work.

The two programs have different syntax. I haven't used much Maple, but MATLAB isn't very hard.

thanks