Subject: Making Maxima be Mathematica compatible...
From: Richard Fateman
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 08:15:59 -0800
seberino@spawar.navy.mil wrote:
> I see threads on list about people converting
> Mathematica code to Maxima code with scripts
> and such...
>
> Any talk/interest in making Maxima be
> able to speak Mathematica rather than
> having different syntax/style to learn?
There is a free Lisp-language Mathematica parser
(MockMMA) that I wrote. It includes a rudimentary
evaluator and pattern matcher. It is roughly
Mathematica 2.0 equivalent syntactically.
But to make something really work like Mathematica,
one would have to reverse-engineer hundreds of thousands
of lines of code.
Perhaps you could be more specific as to what
you wish to do. If all you need to do is to have
Maxima allow you to write Sin[x] instead of sin(x),
that is easy. If you want to write Plot3D[...]
into Maxima and get the same exact results as Mathematica,
that is not easy.
RJF
>
> Chris