Re: How to call Maxima functions from Octave

Do not know whether this help to discussion.There was netmath 
package developed by W. Schelter.
The whole idea was to start  some daemon as a network service 
that would accept the comand from maxima, octave and some other
program. I tried to build this package on my linux box but 
failed.

rgds,
V
On Thursday 27 March 2003 05:55, James Amundson wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 11:51, John W. Eaton wrote:
> > On 16-Feb-2003, Poul-Erik Hansen <peh@lukaoptoscope.com> 
wrote:
> > | I use Octave and the computer algebra system Maxima on
> > | Linux and Windows platforms. I use Octave for the
> > | numerical work and Maxima for my symbolic work.  I would
> > | like to merge the two program so that I could call Maxima
> > | functions from within Octave! Have you succede in doing
> > | this and how did you do it?
> >
> > I don't know of any efforts to link maxima with Octave.  but
> > if anyone has plans to do something like this, I'd be
> > interested in knowing about your progress or any problems
> > you've had.
>
> I would also encourage anyone interested in such a project to
> talk to me. Here are some relevant facts:
> 	1) I am the Maxima project leader.
> 	2) I use Octave every day in my work. (That's work as in
> "what I get paid to do," not work as in "Maxima work.")
> 	3) I have spent a great deal of time thinking about ways that
> Maxima and Octave might talk to each other, but have not come
> to any definite conclusion.
> 	4) Some sort of Maxima-Octave communication is likely to be
> an official part of Maxima some time in the future, but we
> have several more pressing issues (read "bug fixing") to deal
> with first.
>
> I should probably add:
> 	5) I am not on the help-octave list -- I just peruse the
> mailing-list archives from time to time. Please cc responses
> sent to the list to me.