--- Raymond Toy <toy@rtp.ericsson.se> wrote:
> Jurgen> Have you considered to integrate pari in maxima? As far
> as I know they have a
> Jurgen> lot of special functions (and other goodies) implemented
> with very fast and
> Jurgen> accurate code and with any precision you could wish and
> it's free.
> Jurgen> Jurgen
>
> Good idea, and it's GPL too so the license is compatible with maxima.
>
> However, it looks like it's in C. Doing a foreign function interface
> to it may not be easy. And certainly not portable.
>
> But this would be very nice to have....
>
> Ray
What about a pipe style process, like we were talking about earlier for
a front end? Start up a pari session, and have maxima pipe requests to
it, and get responses? That would probably require some syntax
manipulation, but maxima can already export to TeX and there is also a
program written to export content mathml by Dr. Barton Willis of the
University of Nebraska at Kearney, so I'm sure exporting to pari syntax
could be managed. Could that work?
CY
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