Editing Maple (software) (section)

==Overview==
===Core functionality===
Users can enter mathematics in traditional [[mathematical notation]].  Custom user interfaces can also be created. There is support for numeric computations, to arbitrary precision, as well as symbolic computation and visualization.  Examples of symbolic computations are given below.

Maple incorporates a [[Type system#Dynamic typing|dynamically typed]] imperative-style [[programming language]] (resembling [[Pascal (programming language)|Pascal]]), which permits variables of lexical [[scope (programming)|scope]].<ref>[http://www.bitwisemag.com/copy/reviews/software/maths/maple10_mathematica52.html Power of two] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100706181735/http://www.bitwisemag.com/copy/reviews/software/maths/maple10_mathematica52.html |date=2010-07-06 }} Bitwise Magazine</ref> There are also interfaces to other languages ([[C (programming language)|C]], [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]], [[Fortran]], [[Java (programming language)|Java]], [[MATLAB]], and [[Visual Basic]]), as well as to [[Microsoft Excel]].

Maple supports [[MathML]] 2.0, which is a [[W3C]] format for representing and interpreting mathematical expressions, including their display in web pages.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.maplesoft.com/standards/MathML/info.html|title=Welcome to the Maplesoft MathML Home Page|website=www.maplesoft.com}}</ref> There is also functionality for converting expressions from traditional mathematical notation to markup suitable for the typesetting system [[LaTeX]].

===Architecture===
Maple is based on a small [[kernel (operating system)|kernel]], written in [[C (programming language)|C]], which provides the Maple language. Most functionality is provided by libraries, which come from a variety of sources. Most of the libraries are written in the Maple language; these have viewable source code.  Many numerical computations are performed by the [[NAG Numerical Libraries]], [[Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software|ATLAS]] libraries, or [[GNU Multi-Precision Library|GMP]] libraries.

Different functionality in Maple requires numerical data in different formats. Symbolic expressions are stored in memory as [[directed acyclic graph]]s. The standard interface and calculator interface are written in [[Java (programming language)|Java]].