From: nma@12000.org   
      
   On 11/14/2020 11:26 AM, clicliclic@freenet.de wrote:   
   >   
   > Hello everybody.   
   >   
   > In what general directions did the respective developers take Maple   
   > and Mathematica over the past years? Just maintaining the status quo?   
   > Adding more function names? Adding or improving algorithms? Reworking   
   > the implementation?   
   >   
   > Did the user bases grow or shrink? Are long-term perspectives becoming   
   > clear?   
   >   
   > Martin.   
   >   
      
   For number of functions, this is the only data I have. It gives   
   number of Functions per version for Mathematica over the years.   
   It might not be exact.   
      
      
   V 1       June 1988,       600   
   V 2       Jan 15, 1991     883   
   V 3       April 21, 1993   1200   
   V 4       May 19, 1999     1300   
   V 5       June 12, 2003    1500   
   V 6       May 1, 2007      2100   
   V 7       Nov 18, 2008     2550   
   V 8       Nov 15, 2010     2467   
   V 12.1.1  June 9, 2020     5600   
      
   It is possible to obtain this using the command   
      
      lis = WolframLanguageData[All, {"Name", "DateIntroduced"}]   
      
   I do not know how to do this for Maple. May be Maple experts know.   
      
   Maple is also organized in packages. So might be more involved   
   to count overall "number of functions" for each version.   
      
   Someone asked related question on Mathematica's stackexchange few   
   months ago. Might be of interest:   
      
   https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/221959/is-mathem   
   tica-adequately-improving   
      
      
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