C Y <smustudent1@yahoo.com> writes:
> any way we could "translate" maxima into another, more
> widely used language?
Every computer algebra system I know of has its own special purpose
high level language. Most of the system consists of libraries, which
are usually most naturally written in that language. For those
libraries it does not matter much which language has been used to
implement the core system including the CAS language.
That said, Maxima is richer than most systems because the underlying
language (common lisp) is still very well suited for symbolic
manipulation unlike C and C++.
> while Lisp programming is a relatively rare skill.
In my opinion everybody with an interest in programming should learn
lisp if they don't know it already, which many do.
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Timo Korvola <URL:http://www.iki.fi/tkorvola>;