Quadpack and maxima and Octave



On the topic of Octave,  which I gather is a GPL version of Matlab...
How hard would it be to make Octave be a front end for Maxima,
similar to Matlab with symbolic toolkit being a front end for
Maple?  I have only given this 15 seconds of thought, but maybe
someone familiar with Octave can say something.
RJF


Raymond Toy wrote:

>>>>>>"ole" == ole rohne <ole.rohne@cern.ch> writes:
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>    ole> Translated (f2cl) or FFI?
>    ole> Either way is cool, how hard is it to pack it up as a contributed package?
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>I used f2cl since I wanted it to work on all supported lisps.
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>I'm thinking about how to do it as a separate package.  It nice to
>have it compiled since that makes it quite a bit faster.  But I'm not
>sure how to do that with the least amount of pain to the user.
>
>Ray
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