Good enough algebra = entirely wrong.



Daniel Lemire writes:
 > To be clear, I'm now considering using Maxima for my research, assuming 
 > I can get a decent user interface working (it is not all that bad, but 
 > in 2001, I've come to expect a bit more). So I'm at least partially in 
 > agreement with you. But it would still seem to me like Maxima has few 
 > tricks to learn.

Did you try Texmacs? How about xmaxima?  symaxx2? these and the maxima 
mode for emacs/xemacs are the only user interfaces I know about.

Osman