Dan Stanger wrote:
>What parts of Maxima can be written in Maxima, and does it
>make sense to do so?
>Say for example solve, for linear equations.
>Does it make Maxima more maintainable for solve to
>be written in Maxima, or not? It seems to me, if one is
>implementing some formula, a language that is closer
>to mathematical notation would be preferable.
>
You can use translate to convert maxima to lisp. Maybe even
keep things in the same file by using the maxima parser at read time.
>It seems that in the last 20 years, environments
>have moved towards development in the problem
>domain and left the job of code generation to compilers.
>
>I think the Macsyma language maps well to the
>problem of symbolic manipulation, but perhaps others
>would disagree.
>
I think that this is true for some tasks. E.g. ODE2 is written that
way, mostly. For other tasks, it is messy or inadequate. E.g. some of
ODE2 is written in Lisp!
RJF
>Dan Stanger
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