Subject: how to use "maxima --batch" *reliably* ??
From: Oliver Kullmann
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:27:39 +0000
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:48:47AM -0800, Richard Fateman wrote:
> Maybe you should reconsider running maxima in batch mode.
> Maxima, as designed, wants to be in charge, not called by other programs.
> There are all kinds of problems that you haven't even considered that
> come up when you use it as a batch program.
>
>
So you propose not to use Maxima at all?
Any reliable build-process needs to be automatised.
It seems to me that Maxima has a lot of weeknesses regarding
modern programming standards, but this doesn't need to mean that
one gives up on it.
Oliver