On 9/22/07, apeditedirra unasaltao <pi_e_dra at yahoo.es> wrote:
> I would like to get the sources for the maxima language, but not for the
> mathematical computation.
>
> That is maxima language as a stand-alone language.
>
> What's that for? I think that the (small) lisp community should realize
> that there is a need for a front-end in Lisp in order to enhace readability.
Do you just want the syntax of Maxima and the semantics of Lisp, a la
Lisp 2 (1970s) or Dylan (1990s)? It would be easy enough to pull out
the lexer and parser. But why not just use Python? -- it has a much
better thought-out syntax, and more modern, fairly Lisp-like semantics
plus an object system, though I guess it doesn't have as good a
compiler.
-s