Lie53 Symmetry program translated to maxima



I guess I didn't make myself clear.
First, I wrote a parser to convert muMath to maxima.
I then started to modify the code by hand to format it.
After working on it for quite a while, I realized I had
made several mistakes with argument ordering for several
functions.

Following is a quote from the gcc cpp man page.
       The C preprocessor is intended to be used only with C, C++, and
       Objective-C source code.  In the past, it has been abused as a general
       text processor.  It will choke on input which does not obey C's lexical

       rules.  For example, apostrophes will be interpreted as the beginning
       of character constants, and cause errors.  Also, you cannot rely on it
       preserving characteristics of the input which are not significant to
       C-family languages.  If a Makefile is preprocessed, all the hard tabs
       will be removed, and the Makefile will not work.

       Having said that, you can often get away with using cpp on things which

       are not C.  Other Algol-ish programming languages are often safe
       (Pascal, Ada, etc.) So is assembly, with caution.  -traditional mode
       preserves more white space, and is otherwise more permissive.  Many of
       the problems can be avoided by writing C or C++ style comments instead
       of native language comments, and keeping macros simple.

I wrote macros to do some argument reordering, and tried to use cpp on the
maxima source,
but it choked on unterminated '.  I then converted single quotes to (QUOTE)
which is
a cast in C, and it worked.  I used the mode which keeps comments, and
formatting.

muMath is a old version of Deriv, and it is written in lisp, however muMath
looks
sort of like Pascal or Modula2.

Dan Stanger