How Maple Flow Compares to Mathcad

I tried to give it an honest evaluation, but found it extremely slow on my PC. I have an i7 8CPU @3.6 MHz, with 16 GB of ram and a SSD hard drive. Maybe they have done something in the last couple of months to speed it up. 

If I am not mistaken you have to buy both Maple and Maple Flow. 

Okay, I downloaded it; evaluation until 6/25.

Opened the tutorial to learn the basics.  It's going to be a steep learning curve!

In the tutorial (which I would think had been worked to perfection), typed a variable, followed by a colon (for colon/equal) then a number--got a red box "unhandled exception."  Typed the variable name in free space, below that typed name = , got "name = name.  (Great!)  Typed "name:6---got "unhandled exception!"  (If I double underline (to create a subscripted name the assignment works, but a simple variable name will not permit a numeric assignment.  And this is the tutorial page!

Not impressed so far.  And it's slow.

I thought it would be interesting to do a side by side comparison of a relatively simple calculation, so I've compared my response to Fred's question about a weir -  see below.

I didn't use units in Maple flow as I couldn't get the plot to work properly with them, though the individual calculations worked ok with them (it's likely that a more experienced Maple flow user would be able to get the plot done with units).  There are some syntax differences as might be expected - the above shows a difference in the way functions are defined.  

At present I find Mathcad easier to use -  but I've been using Mathcad for over 20 years, while I've been using Maple flow for one day!

Maple flow as above, but with symbolics and units:

Alan

Oh, Mathcad is Mathcad, and Maple is Maple, and never the twain shall meet,

Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;

But there is neither Mathcad nor Maple, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,

When two strong men stand face to face,

tho' they come from the ends of the earth!