I wanted to first thank all the developers for working on and releasing
Maxima 5.9.1. There are some improvements which I have been quietly
waiting for and which work perfectly. Thank you.
In a previous post the issue of a review was mentioned. I have a role in
the UK based Learning and Teaching Support Network. We provide a network
through which colleagues in HE Maths Stats and OR can share good practice
in teaching. (See http://ltsn.mathstore.ac.uk/)
One of our major activities is in producing the paper based, and online,
newsletter MSOR Connections. (Again see
http://mathstore.gla.ac.uk/articles/ )
We do carry reviews of software packages, although they are usually
commercial since these tend to have more publicity with a major
release. There is every reason to carry reviews of well supported open
source packages also.
I would like to commission a review of Maxima. However, I would be happy
to wait for a future release if the developers think this would be
better. Any comments please?
Also, which interfaces should be included? eg maxima, xmaxima, TeXMacs
interface and so on.
Regards
Chris Sangwin
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