Maxima + PalmOS



Greetings!

C Y  writes:

> 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.)
> 

FYI, gcl, maxima, acl2 and axiom are all completely functional on any
Debian arm compatible handheld, like the Zaurus, as far as the word
'functional' could apply to using a powerful CAS with such a tiny
keyboard :-).  I saw an axiom-empowered Zaurus myself at the recent
axiom conference.

Are you sure one cannot run Debian binaries on a Palm?  Even if not,
GCL will likely work out of the box given any standard development
environment.  Full ansi compliance is still a ways off, but what you
certainly do get with GCL is portable performance.

Take care,

> 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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