How make other langs talk to Maxima/LISP?

This is certainly possible, and is used
by various front ends.  I get the feeling
that you have some other program in mind
.... but what is it that
you want the other program to say to Maxima and
what will that program do with what Maxima says
to it? Since Maxima already talks in either
(a) lisp
or
(b) character strings
or (in trivial cases)
(c) character strings of numeric digits
or (in special cases)
(d) a character string representing a Fortran
program.

your other program is likely to have to include
either a lisp reading program and the data
structures for it, or a maxima language parser
or (possibly) be fairly trivial.

RJF



seberino@spawar.navy.mil wrote:
> Is it possible to use Maxima as an engine
> that you can access from other programs
> and languages like C???
> 
> Symaxx seems to be a Perl/Tk front-end
> to Maxima that has no problem talking
> to LISP code.
> 
> Chris