Re: Rats; Fwd: [Soc2006support] Letter of intent for Maxima project to participate in SOC as a mentoring organization

Incidently, a notebook program for iPython was worked on for last 
summer's google
SOC. It is not finished but it still being worked on (by Robert Kern of 
Enthought and Fernando
Perez at the U of Colorado). SAGE, which includes maxima, uses iPython 
as its interface.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Ron Crummett wrote:

> Irwin Zaid wrote:
>
>> I also agree with Nicolas, in the sense that I would like to see 
>> Maxima compete with Maple and Mathematica as soon as possible.
>
> I share these sentiments as well, but out of curiosity, what should be 
> the first steps taken to accomplish this goal?
>
> The first thing that comes to mind for me is a notebook program, 
> something where you could write some commentary, include a 
> nice-looking equation, maybe imbed a plot.  Maybe some sort of 
> OpenOffice plugin or something.  From what I can tell, there isn't 
> anything like that yet (if I'm wrong, please don't rake me across the 
> coals, just kindly point me in the right direction).  It seems like 
> iMaxima might come close but I can't set it up to tell.
>
> Another consideration might be enhancing the documentation.  I would 
> love to help with some of these things, but I have no idea of how to 
> write Maxima code.  I may not be the only one in this boat.  I can do 
> a pretty good job of taking a derivative, but writing code to do 
> symbolic differentiation, well...
>
> Just my two cents on the matter.
>
> -Ron
>
> _______________________________________________
> Maxima mailing list
> Maxima at math.utexas.edu
> http://www.math.utexas.edu/mailman/listinfo/maxima
>