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Introduction

A few words to those who are familiar with other programming languages.

This document is based on Maple version V. Maple development continues. New versions come out every one or two years which contain not only changes to the mathematical capabilities of Maple, but also changes to the programming language and user interface. For this reason, I have tried to steer you away from constructs in the language which are being, or are likely to be removed, and have mentioned some things that will be in the language in future versions of Maple.

The Maple V Language Reference Manual is the main reference for programming in Maple. It is published by Springer-Verlag. The ISBN number is 0-387-87621-3 . Other useful sources of information include the First Leaves: Tutorial Introduction to Maple, also published by Springer-Verlag, and the extensive on-line documentation which is accessible with the ? command in Maple. Part of the reason for writing this document is that some of the important things I have stated here are not mentioned elsewhere, or they are buried in the documentation.



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