Miquel Cabanas schrieb:
> hi,
>
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:37:02PM -0500, Stavros Macrakis wrote:
>
>>I do need to learn more about Matlab/Octave and R/S. Can you recommend
>>a good high-level overview of these systems? Something that will
>>actually describe the semantics but won't go into reference-manual
>>levels of numbing detail....
>
Hi -
I'm aware, that my comment will not fit exactly to the current
focus of discussion. But what I'm curious about is the handling
of this sequential input/output in one window, which I find
"maxima" inconvenient... and I'm surprised that I find that IMHO
antique technique in so many mathematically sophisticated software -
even in that YACAS again, where one poster pointed us to.
Especially *experimenting* along a thought is very difficult, since
it needs navigation between lines, recalling of previous inputs...
things, that with a simple notepad-like editor would be lightyears
more convenient.
The most simple alternative would be to have *two* windows - one for input
and one for output, like it is already implemented with the plotting
window. The effect is, that you can easily edit any command just
inplace and restart it without new effort.
In my tiny matrix-calculator MatMate I followed this path, and
-besides the small mathematical basis in it (compared with maxima,
octave, yacas etc) - that is a feature I would really like to have
in such a thing like maxima, octave et al. I think in Mathcad they
do somehow like this, but I've only seen a short demo long time ago,
and possibly don't remember right.
currently I help myself with a notepad window besides maxima and
copy&paste - but even this is not exactly convenient...
FWIW -
Gottfried Helms