On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 13:26, Raymond Toy wrote:
> >>>>> "James" == James Amundson <amundson@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
>
> James> Christophe has a good memory; I talked to him about calling lisp from C
> James> when we met at the Libre Software meeting in Metz last year. At the
> James> time, I gave him the following example: Suppose we were to use foreign
> James> function calls to use the Gnu Scientific Library (gsl) within Maxima. If
> James> we want to be able use, e.g., the gsl differential equations package, we
> James> need to be able to call maxima functions from C.
>
> FWIW, f2cl can compile and run odepack.
OK. I was just trying to give an example of why foreign functions used
by maxima might need to call a lisp function. I didn't mean to say that
foreign function calls where inherently important for integrating
differential equations.
--Jim