I did not see an official policy about asking homework questions on MaplePrimes (at least a search for 'homework' did not turn up anything relevant). A number of other sites and mailing lists which I am on have such policies. A particularly like the policy from the Haskell-cafe list. It strikes an excellent middle-ground between being helpful and active participation in academic dishonesty.

I've wanted a Maple IDE for a long time. Still do. And apparently, I am not the only one who thinks that such a product could really sell.

While I was over on Wolfram Research's web site (to provide a link for another post), I saw an interesting link to a Technology Guide. First, let me warn the techies: it is absolutely shameless marketing on their part. Second, again for the techies: take a look at it and drool! It is astonishing. They take basic technology, very little of which is Mathematica-specific, and turn it into a very sexy marketing story. In fact, some of the technology highlighted is ancient history in Maple, yet they managed to make it sound fresh, new, and Mathematica-only. I have to say 'wow'.

Steve Forrest and I are building a static analyzer for Maple code. What we would like is some kernel bound self-contained Maple code. In other words, we want code that does not depend on any Library functions, just the Maple language (and itself). Static analysis is already quite difficult, we have to start "small" and build up. Later, we will allow certain library functions -- essentially kernel-bound library functions first (call these 1-functions), then functions that only depend on those (ie 2-functions), and so on, until we can deal with n-functions for n large enough. Right now, kernel-bound code only, please!

Since the book entries do not yet have their own tracker (like the forums, blogs, etc), I figured I would give a particular entry I crafted on advanced maple programming a bit of a boost by making a blog entry of it, at least until Will get the tracker back online. I did spend a huge amount of time on that book entry, so I want it to get some visibility!