Subject: Discussion about arrays and matrices in Maxima
From: Raymond Toy
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 07:34:59 -0400
?iga Lenar?i? wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On 19. May, 2009, at 1:30 AM, Richard Fateman wrote:
>
>> See if you can find out about the matlisp package. http://
>> matlisp.sourceforge.net/
>>
> I'm aware of Matlisp - with some modifications it could be used for
> matrices of 'double-float type. The only problem (I think) there is
> with Matlisp is that it requires a FFI to BLAS/LAPACK libraries.
> Currently (as far as I know) GCL doesn't support that, which means
> most of the Maxima's userbase would be left out. Perhaps Matlisp kind
> of system can be made to work with f2cl converted LAPACK until we
> have some other Lisp on Windows...
>
Maxima already contains an f2cl-translated version of LAPACK. See the
lapack share package.
Ray