Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, C Y wrote:
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>>2) It would probably be very nice if we could get a history of
>>Macsyma/Maxima to include, just so people know where this thing
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Maybe see this...
Fateman, R.J. A review of Macsyma. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and
Data Engineering, vol.1, (no.1), March 1989. p.133-45. 45 references.
Language: English. Pub type: Practical
Abstract: The successes and failures of the Macsyma algebraic
manipulation system are reviewed from the point of view of one of the
original contributors. A retrospective examination is provided of some
of the controversial ideas that worked, and some that did not.
Input/output, language semantics, knowledge-adjunction, mathematical
semantics, the model of the user, and other issues are considered.
Possible future directions for algebraic manipulation system building
are discussed.