> Some people here and about are helping them by trying to
> compile Maxima with
> ECL, instead of CLISP.
> This appears to me to be a distraction.
I would be very pleased to see ECL-compiled maxima because this will
bring Maxima linked into Perl via CPAN module Language::Lisp::ECLs
This will work directly (w/o sockets), and other lists are not capable
of this embedding feature.
(e.g. CLISP has "embeddable" in its wish-list since 2001
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=423264&group_id
=1355&atid=351355)
An effort to build Maxima with ECL will require some improvements on ECL
side, but I am sure this worth the effort.
BR,
Vadim.