On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 17:02, Camm Maguire wrote:
> Greetings! I was just wondering if there was an unbiased analysis out
> there somewhere comparing available CAS systems, free and non-free, in
> terms of features, robustness, usefulness, etc.
I have never seen one I find wholly satisfactory. This page contains a
reasonable set of links: <http://www.df.uba.ar/~jakubi/comparison.html>;.
You might find it helpful to ask the same question on the newsgroup
sci.math.symbolic.
> Also, is there a
> brief howto available describing how a user might implement missing
> functionality in an add-on package -- i.e. how does one integrate into
> maxima's rule system?
Such documentation is always welcome :-).
--Jim