I don't think the point is to make Maxima behave like
Mathematica.
Rather, as Richard Fateman pointed out, the idea is to take
advantage of the fact that Mathematica
has a sophisticated and mature implementation of NIntegrate
that can be used to draw ideas from.
Kostas
Robert Dodier wrote:
> Tastes vary, but for me making stuff work the same as in Mathematica
> is a very low priority. More to the point, the vast majority of Maxima
> users have no idea how similarly-named functions work in Mathematica.
>
> FWIW
> Robert