Questions about interfacing as needed for using Maxima CAS for engineering problems (master thesis)
Subject: Questions about interfacing as needed for using Maxima CAS for engineering problems (master thesis)
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 11:18:54 -0600
On 10/8/05, Edwin Rozie wrote:
> I was hoping to find an interface like Yacas (Yet Another Computer
> Algebra System) has ( see
> http://yacas.sourceforge.net/essayschapter3.html#c3s4 )
The interface mentioned there takes a string to be evaluated
and returns a string. Even better would be a interface which
returns a programming object (a nested list, I suppose),
so that the result need not be parsed to figure out what it is.
It is theoretically possible using one a C/Lisp
foreign function interface, but I don't know that such an
interface has been constructed for Maxima, and I don't know
which of the FFI projects (CFFI, UFFI, Hello-C, others?)
is most suitable.
for what it's worth,
Robert Dodier