Re: fork in Lisp? was: Maxima servermode: stability of commands....



Hi Gerd, what you wrote makes a lot of sense. I'll give it some thought.

> I guess what I am trying to say is that since it's not a human at the
> other end, the communication needs to be terse and very predictable:
> one input command produces one line of output.

For your purposes, what format would make the least work for you
once you get the response? Infix math notation? Lisp? TeX?
MathML or other XML? Something else?

Full of questions,
Robert