Valerij Pipin wrote:
> di> Ben
> The reason is simple the current maxima was separated off the main branch at
> the begining of 1980-th. So our tensor package was out of developing process
> from that time. The commercial development will be likely lost. That is very
> bad. It is like the food which is thrown away when it is not possible to sell
> it.
>
> There is a paper about atensor implementation for REDUCE. It a detailed
> description of many things. I think we could try to reproduce it in maxima.
>
> best regards,
> Valerij
> _______________________________________________
This the tragedy of proprietary software; the implications of which
are clear in this case. Of course, that was back in the 80s, a different
time and mind set. But many a fine product have been lost to oblivion.
XLisp-Stat was another...
I have seen Macsyma in use recently, at the International Lisp
Conference 2002, in San Francisco, because there was a guy there with a
notebook and Macsyma. He was a pretty young dude. He said he had it
because he knew some former Macsyma developers.
Is there any hope of that code going in to public domain, or being
open sourced (in an OSI sense) *if we beg them* ? ;-)
What if...what if...you Maxima developers got in touch with those
former developers...Any hope?
By the way, I've been on this list for some time. Maxima *just gets
better*! You guys deserve major applause!
A side question: who is the Maxima documentation team?
Best regards,
Henry Lenzi