> From: Richard Fateman <fateman at cs>
> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 13:03:03 -0700
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> I suspect that Wolfram's Mathematica book came about
> this way
> (1) Wolfram learns to use Macsyma
> (2) Wolfram thinks he can do better
> (3) With Geoff Fox and some others, writes SMP
> (4) Tries to make money with SMP,
> (5) SMP turns out to be a loser; start again
> (6) Wolfram write a description of what a CAS should be
> (7) He and others write a system to do that. Modify the
> description as little as possible.
>
The problem for me is (7). His vision of a CAS is too different from
what *I* need...
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Good luck
-Boris