I've heard from a few people as well that a portable implimentation of
Maxima would be very useful to them. I think the primary issue is
getting an underlying Lisp running. There are a few notes somewhere
out there about getting GCL and perhaps even Axiom running on a Sharp
Zaurus, but I have no idea how functional that is. (Nor would it be
Palm compatible.)
This is the only Lisp/Scheme related program I know about for Palm, and
I have no idea what it would take to get Maxima to work on it:
http://www.lispme.de/index.html#lispme/index.html
It would be a very interesting interface design challenge to shoehorn a
CAS onto such a small screen without losing its power or forcing the
user to laborously type out commands via some virtual keyboard (though
the latter would always have to be the fallback) but for me the first
goal is a rich, cross platform GUI on the PC level. Pocket PCs are an
interesting challenge but for me a secondary one until we are squared
away on the large ones. (This might be partially because I don't have
one, though. :-) Hmm - McCLIM on PalmOS? I wonder...
Cheers,
CY
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