Need help with phrases for Spanish-language mailing list

Mario Rodriguez writes:
> 
> In this case, the pronounciation of M?xima is closer to English. But I
> still prefer Maxima in Spanish documents, and write it as in English.
> 

Maxima is the _name_ of the program.
So IMHO the good style is to keep all such names as it is
and don't try to translate them.
Translated or nationally-adapted names may create some confusion.
For example the name of other CAS Mathematica sound precisely
like Russian word "mathematics".

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      Vadim V. Zhytnikov

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