Dear Jim,
Many sincere thanks for your reply below concerning ODE,
which clarifies the situation. Surely, you have been completely
right with this modification of the documentation under the
present circumstances (missing code for a working ODE
command as you correctly mention below).
Yet, I would be glad to see some time in the future ODE
working in Maxima and any help by any colleague would
be extremely welcome.
Incidentally, with respect to the LODE package, I have
now realized that Shunro Watanabe has been a visiting
scientist at the Macsyma Division of Symbolics Inc. in the
period 1990-91 (Lexington, MA) with an aim to improve
the LODE package prepared by him at MIT in 1983. I
will try to send a polite message to Shunro Watanabe as
soon as I will find the necessary time for a rather difficult
message under the present circumstances.
Perhaps a colleague from Japan could undertake to help
according to a suggestion bhy Barton. Some help, please?
Any further help with respect to LODE (MIT's old LODE
I mean) will be also greatly appreciated.
I am already grateful to you as well as to all colleagues:
Richard, Wolfgang, Mike, Barton, Cliff, who informed me
with respect to the ODE and LODE packages in Maxima.
Many sincere thanks again and best regards from Patras,
Nikos
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Amundson" <amundson at fnal>
To: "Nikolaos I. Ioakimidis" <ioakimidis@otenet.gr>
Cc: "Richard Fateman" <fateman@cs.berkeley.edu>; <maxima@mail.ma.utexas.edu>
Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 7:03 PM
Subject: Re: Contributed code (Was Re: [Maxima] Teaching)
> 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>
>