Lists and such (Was Re: [Maxima] Lisp)



--- "Vadim V. Zhytnikov" <vvzhy@mail.ru> wrote:

> > And if we had a maxima tied to a standard (is that common lisp),
> > how about letting maxima use all the goodies cl comes with? I 
> > read (as good as I can) Common Lisp the Language and it was 
> > like reading a recipe of Mathematica commands for manipulating
> > lists and all that (which I'm badly missing). If I'm right,
couldn't
> > one have all that stuff in maxima too?
> 
> Frankly I do not quite understand what do you mean.

I think he wants to add in Lisp's native ability to handle lists into 
Maxima.  Maybe J?rgen you could provide some specific examples of
what you'd like to be able to do?  I suppose set operations and the
like might be part of that, but I confess I'm not clear as to what you
have in mind either.

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