C Y wrote:
(the embryonic beginnings of this
> are on sourceforge at
> http://mathshield.sourceforge.net) using MathML and a
> notebook style interface.
Although it is sometimes considered impolite to question
why people are programming up anything, I can't resist
asking you why you are doing this. In particular, why
are you using MathML, which so far as I can tell is
quite unsuitable for this purpose. For example, how do you encode
"interrupt the computation"?
How do you encode a macsyma program as MathML, except
perhaps as a text string, in which case, what's the point?
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tion. Does anyone know
> how the feature sets of Octave and Maxima compare?
Octave is a clone of Matlab. Essentially, it does
"numbers". Maxima does "symbols" which as a special
case, does "numbers".
RJF