I am not sure I agree. Most of the changes I have seen, and bug fixes,
have not affected compatibility. Perhaps we should take a vote on this.
Also we should see how much code thats out there uses macsyma arrays,
and see what the porting effort would be.
Robert Dodier wrote:
> Dan Stanger wrote:
>
> > If we remove array, then we break compatibility with the commercial
> > macsyma, which doesn't have make_array implemented.
>
> I don't mean to be flippant, but: the number of potential users
> of Maxima who don't care about compatibility with commercial
> Macsyma must outnumber the ones who do by several orders of
> magnitude. To please the former group, making Maxima less
> bizarre is a goal of much higher priority. FWIW.
>
> Be that as it may, compatibility with commercial Macsyma is
> already a lost cause, right? With every minor enhancement and
> bug fix, Maxima is drifting farther away. There is good reason
> to speed up the process.
>
> best,
> Robert Dodier
>
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