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GNU Emacs vs wxMaxima

A side-by-side look at GNU Emacs and wxMaxima. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs

Development

GNU Emacs is a popular, open source text editor and computing environment. It runs on most operating systems and provides extensibility through an Emacs Lisp interpreter.

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wxMaxima

wxMaxima

Education & Reference

wxMaxima is an open-source computer algebra system and GUI for the Maxima system. It allows symbolic manipulations, plotting functions, implementing algorithms and much more. It has a simple interface yet powerful functionalities for mathematical calculations.

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