> -----Original Message-----
> From: C Y [mailto:smustudent1 at yahoo]
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 8:51 AM
> To: Maxima list
> Cc: Tuukka Toivonen; Paulo Ney de Souza
> Subject: RE: [Maxima] New website up
>
> That's probably a manual thing - I kind of had it in mind to work
those
> into the history section, which is probably the most relevant place
for
> them now. I think I also found some other Macsyma sources, but I would
> be dubious of their legality until proven otherwise. Actually,
though,
> that's a worthwhile question - do any of the other versions, if they
> are still out there, have any features Maxima doesn't (becides the
> Macsyma GUI stuff)? I know there was one at one point which could run
> on MacOS, but other than that I have no idea.
I think the most important feature that the others ones had
that Maxima dies not, is the maintenance of the Macsyma code
itself. Many customers of Macsyma, Inc and others like Aljbr,
etc, fed corrections to them, that was supposed to be passed
back to the original source code and most of the time was never
done.... I am a strong believer that the momentum of the open-
source community can do better than all those years of
improvement
on the closed code of Macsyma, Inc, Paramacs, Aljbr, etc ... and
if any of them would like to help improve the code, they can
just
offer it here - I head from Bill a year ago, that ALL of the
important players on this field subscribe to this list, and are
seeing this message.
Richard Fateman: Do you know of anyone else that has possible
improvements from these times of separate codes, that could be
brought in Maxima ?
Paulo Ney