Pros and Cons of mathcad

[YA_10963798]

I'm doing a presentation of mathcad to me company and I'm thinking of including the pros and cons of it comparing to other calculating programs. Any ideas ?

[LucMeekes · Accepted solution]

I assume you're referring to Prime, as opposed to real/legacy Mathcad... Sure!

See some old posts, that compare one or the other Mathcad to other packages with similar use:

https://community.ptc.com/t5/Mathcad/MathCad-vs-Matlab/m-p/290860

https://community.ptc.com/t5/Mathcad/Mathcad-vs-Wolfram-Mathematica-vs-Standard-Maple-vs-Maple-Flow/m-p/855829

https://community.ptc.com/t5/Mathcad/Mathcad-Vs-Wolfram-Mathematica/m-p/709650

You should be able to find some arguments in there.

The one thing I'd add is that the Prime editions of Mathcad have no sure method of saving to an older file format, nor can they read a newer file format (which is mostly true for real Mathcad as well, as it is for many other applications). That is: while Prime 10 can convert all Mathcad (1 ...15) files to Prime 10, and read all Prime (1...10) files, it cannot save to other than Prime 10 format. You're going on a road where your entire company must decide on everyone using the same version of Prime.

Success!
Luc

[YA_10963798]

Thank you very much. I appreciate your help.

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