Mike Thomas writes:
>Hi James.
>
>I said:
>
>| > It would reflect very positively on Maxima itself to include wxMaxima
>| > which, although not as featureful as XMaxima, has the air of
>| solidity and
>| > responsiveness that hardened end-users expect on Windows.
>|
>
>and James asked of me:
>
>| I am seriously considering this proposal. What interests me is your
>| point of view that XMaxima is more featureful -- I would have said the
>| opposite. I really only use XMaxima for testing XMaxima, so maybe I'm
>| missing something. Which XMaxima features do you find lacking in
>| wxMaxima?
>
>Without wishing to take away from the fact that wxMaxima has a much nicer
>look and feel (even to the extent that I much prefer to use wxMaxima
>myself!) and without ignoring the cold fact that no-one wants to maintain
>Xmaxima:
>
>1. Most notably the inbuilt web browser, which can be connected to the
>interactive math educational web pages which Bill Schelter had set up to
>illustrate mathematical issues (can't remmeber off hand where they were or
>what his system was called was called). This was, for me, a very exciting
>part of the Maxima web presence.
>
>2. Cliff has already mentioned internationalisation of the character set as
>used by at least one subscriber to this list in his teaching role.
>
>3. Easy programmability in two senses; that it is just a Tcl script; and it
>resides in our CVS repository and can be altered as we see fit.
>
>Cheers
>
>Mike Thomas.
>
>
>
4. As far as I remember lower xmaxima browser window can be used as
source level debugger for Maxima and lisp.
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Vadim V. Zhytnikov