status of gamalg



On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 11:32, Richard Fateman wrote:
> Would it make sense to take FORM and load it into maxima
> so that FORM can be accessed interactively?

I doubt that would be possible. FORM is not an open-source program. It
has a very primitive interface.

> Or have maxima write out FORM scripts, run FORM, read
> FORM results?

That would probably be fairly straightforward. The FORM commands are not
terribly complicated. It might be simpler to write the equivalent
commands in Lisp for Maxima.

--Jim