On 10/27/07, Peter Danenberg <pcd at wikitex.org> wrote:
> > Maxima doesn't have a notion of lexical scope.
>
> Thanks, Robert! I keep making the erroneous assumption that since
> Maxima is intrinsically Lispy; it should be extrinsically Lispy, too.
Well, if someone wanted to rework the Maxima language to
implement lexical scope and exploit tail recursion,
I certainly wouldn't complain.
One way to get a different user language for Maxima
could be to run an interpreter for another language implemented
in Common Lisp, & load Maxima as a library. I have looked
at CL-Python as a possibility, but I didn't get very far.
best
Robert Dodier