Derive 5
- some reviews
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"Derive
is...a powerful but uncomplicated package, well
established and reliably supported... Version 5 remains faithful
to the original concept but features significant new updates
with improved Windows compatibility."
- Scientific Computing World, August/September 2000
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"I
was fascinated by Derive and worked through complex systems
for the sheer pleasure of watching the results appear on the screen
....Derive is exceptionally capable software for math-intensive
problem solving."
- Desktop
Engineering Magazine, April 1996 |
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Derive
5 was voted Best Budget Buy of
the mathematic section
by the English magazine Computer Shopper in the July 2001issue.
The magazine's summary: "...Derive 5 can do numeric and symbolic
maths and is specially recommended for schools because there
are lots of teaching modules. It's also available built into a TI
(Texas Instruments) calculator." |
An
excerpt from the review by Scientific Computing World (2001):
"Derive has
advanced considerably since Texas Instruments bought it from Soft Warehouse
of Hawaii in 1999. It's now at v5.02, with a few small editing and control
improvements since the March 2000 release of v5.0. In fact TI has worked
with the original team to improve on the existing Derive for Windows;
a command line package with (mostly) non-communicating windows has become
a fully-fledged Windows program with full OLE support.
The only drift from
the original concept is the addition of procedural loop constructs,
but even Albert Rich, Derive's co-designer, says this is often easier
than functional programming.
What hasn't changed is the compactness; I still find it surprising
that a full symbolic package can fit into 3.5mb. The size - along
with a friendly and enthusiastic support group - will help ensure Derive's
continuing foothold in the educational and international sector, where
not everyone has high-powered PCs.
While it's futile
to hope that major corporate packages might ever shrink, Derive is an
example to others of how much can be done without a package becoming
bloated."
- Ray Girvan
in Scientific Computing World, March/April 2001