On Thursday 11 March 2004 23:47, Richard Fateman wrote:
| Rather than having 4 people write another graphics package for Maxima
| to replace the packages that exist (I don't know if they work, but Xmaxima
| plots for me..), why not write something that doesn't already exist.
|
| Having just looked at the list of product offerings from Mathworks
| (vendors of Matlab), why not pick your favorite toolkit and see what
| you can do symbolically. e.g. signal processing, control systems,
| financial computations, pdes, ....
These examples are not quite ingenious. Suppose we have all this happines. In
processing all of these problems you need to visualize results. So truly
good plotting package will be needed. I can not imagine the signal
processing package without good plotting functions. Right now maxima's
plotting package can serve as preview only. I
Yet I think it is better to think on develop the interaction interface between
maxima and, say, octave (or scilab) than transfer their routines to maxima.
Another problem is that right now maxima is more similar to imperative
language like fortran or pascal. There is no good pattern matching package.
So transfering program from mathematica will be not easy.
rgds,
Valery