Valery Pipin <pip at iszf.irk.ru> writes:
> Is it worth to do?
> What is valuable there? The developing of Macsyma was broken more than 8 years
> ago! It's getting old. From my point of few only small portion of former
> macsyma may be still actual. This is connected with PDE-Easy (I'm not sure in
> the name).
> That part is devoted to solving pde with finite element method. It was very
> elegantly connected with macsyma's itensor.
> However, I don't think that this tool can be seriously used elsewhere except
> education.
>
> Also, I think it is not very difficult to reproduce analog within the
> current version using either finite differences from contrib/gentran or a
> kind of spectral/pseudospectral method. I'm intending to write the code for
> the solar dynamo eigen values problem using maxima and pseudospectral
> method.
>
> best regards,
> valery
I own a Macsyma license on Windows, and, although I'm using it rarely since
I usually don't use Windows, I think that it has a lot of value. It has a
very nice integrated worksheet, it has a good documentation, it has PDEase,
and as I have read in comp.lang.lisp several times, a lot of work (not in
Maxima) was put into it by highly competent Lisp programmers (e.g. Kent
Pitman). IMO, it would be quite important, if someone managed to free it.
Nicolas