Helms,
You must look also at Yacas (http://www.xs4all.nl/~apinkus/yacas.html)
is a pretty nice and small computer language (without the same maturity
of Maxima but with a lot of nice a promising features) that is
extensible, easy to learn, portable and well documented. I see in the
future a lot of (inter)cooperation between Maxima, Axiom, Yacas,
TeXmacs, Octave and other Free Software programs as a way to get a
really powerfull scientific suite for teaching and learning.
Cheers,
Offray
El lun, 08-12-2003 a las 09:36, Gottfried Helms escribió:
> Hi -
>
> thanks for the help. I really didn't expect a mailing
> list to be such present...
>
> BTw,
[...]
> The Maxima-community seems to be at a point, where it makes sense
> to discuss about the concepts of the language itself? I'm *very*
> interested, since I am currently fiddling with an own matrix-language
> with my windows matrix-"pocket"-calculator MatMate. One of my primary
> goals is the ease-of-use, to have a maximum consistent and intuitive
> syntax&semantic. Since I came across maxima I'm considering to leave
> this stuff, especially if it would be possible to participate with
> some concepts in the maxima-developing, since maxima's mathematical
> engine seems far beyond my own possibilities. I'll see...
>
> Thanx again -
>
> Gottfried Helms / Kassel
>
>
>
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