log10, was: bug report, or am I doing something wrong?

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Gustafson <petegus at spaceshipone.engin.umich.edu> writes:

    Peter> We want young people to find maxima useful for their
    Peter> problems, so that they learn it early and move towards open
    Peter> source tools.

I never thought one of maxima's goals was to encourage open source
tools.

    Peter> This addition would not be detrimental to the
    Peter> "professional" users, since we would never use it on our
    Peter> "real" problems.  (Although I think there is some bias
    Peter> baked into those terms.)

On the contrary, I do find it detrimental.  There are only a few
people with the desire and/or knowledge to work on maxima.  Taking
time to implement this is time taken from other work.  Just look at
the list of bugs.

However, if the person requesting such features were to learn to make
the changes himself, that would be beneficial to everyone.

Ray