On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, C Y wrote:
> On a related, and possibly more promising note, are there any employees
> still on the net who could give us a summary of what they had to do? I
> don't know what they can and can't say, but presumably they could at
> least sketch the problem spots.
might be nice. However, I don't have the feeling that there was a great
response to your (?) message on sci.math.symbolic asking for old user
code for macsyma, was there? I feel that most people are not very
interested...
> I think the evolution will be that Maxima will continue to catch up to
> the commercial Macsyma for quite a while, but eventually we will be
> close enough to it (assuming it remains a static target) that the
> advantage of the commercial code starts to fade away. How long that
> will be I have no idea, but I think it's safe to say that Macsyma won't
> remain a viable commercial product forever unless some sort of ongoing
> development starts taking place again.
This is what I think is rather sad about it - and I think it's very likely
that it's going to be that way... I believe it will be a long way to go
until maxima catches up, and then macsyma will be pretty much dead. I'd
rather have maxima catch up immediately (and keep macsyma alive). It's
just waste of brain, I think.
Martin