>>>>> "Martin" == Martin RUBEY <rubey@labri.fr> writes:
Martin> On comp.lang.lisp somebody wanted to write a lisp interface for
Martin> mathematica. I told him that maxima might be a better choice. He replied:
Martin> Yes, I know of Maxima and it is an interesting option. However,
Martin> I need
Martin> - fast Groebner basis computations
Martin> - fast numerical non-linear-many-variable optimization
As one of the tests in f2cl, there is a copy of minpack, a numerical
optimization pacakge for non-linear and/or least-squares problems.
This could be added, I suppose.
Ray