On 9/10/07, John Ogilvie <ogilvie at cecm.sfu.ca> wrote:
> I was preparing to make a presentation to a Dean of Science about
> improving the effectiveness of teaching mathematics to students of science
> and engineering, for whom mathematics is a tool not a career; I sought to
> demonstrate that for this purpose one does not have to spend big money --
> and especially in 'developing' countries 'big' money is involved -- but
> one can employ Maxima as a viable alternative to expensive software such
> as Maple, Mathematica and MuPAD. However, when that simple plot of
> the definite integral of %e^(-x^2) (without the integration constant)
> failed, and especially when that barbarism and solecism of 'loose' for
> 'lose' appeared on trying to "quit from windows", I was too ashamed of
> maxima to include it in my presentation.
It is true that wxmaxima is included in windows version of maxima but
wxmaxima and maxima are two separate projects. Spelling mistakes,
limitations and other stupidities in wxmaxima shouldn't count when you
are evaluating maxima.
Anyway I have uploaded a new binary for wxmaxima which has this
particular spelling mistake fixed. When you find others please let me
know and I will be happy to fix them.
--
Andrej