On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 03:08, Nikolaos I. Ioakimidis wrote:
> There is now the recent introductory message
>
> - Function: ODE (equation,y,x)
> This no longer exists in Maxima. The documentation is left here
> for historical purposes. . . .
>
> at the beginning of the related DESCRIBE(ODE) command. This
> message has been absent in 5.5 beta and 5.6. It's new: in 5.9.0 only.
>
> Could you, please, be so kind to remind us what has happened
> about the ODE command and the introduction of this message
> has become necessary perhaps by Daniel Lemire or you? Do you
> recall something?
>
> Maybe some (very delayed) copyright complaint by the author(s)
> of the ODE-related files of DOE-Macsyma or, simply, these files
> could not be found somewhere for some reason?
I am working on a long reply to the majority of this very long thread of
mail messages. The answer to this question is quite simple, however, so
I thought I would send it separately:
Here is what happened: someone said ODE exists in the documentation. We
determined we do not have the code for a working ODE, so we changed to
the documentation. That's it.
--
James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov>