> Would you have any objection to me including your Mathematica compatibility
> tools for maxima in a sourceforge project? This project would develop a
> capability to translate Mathematica files into .mac files and provide a
> Mathematica-style command line. This could also build on Mockmma and work
> by Andrei Siver which has been discussed on the maxima mailing list. A
> modest first objective might be to handle the Combinatorica package created
> by Pemmaraju and Skiena (who hold copyright).
Yes, you are certainly welcome to use it. I suddenly got an
opportunity for a new, more demanding, job and have not
touched the project for some time.
I think I only posted the perl version. In the meantime I
put a lot of work into modifiying Richards' parser (mostly
because I was learning lisp) to replace this perl, because
it was so slow. I also began to recode many compatibility
functions in lisp, because I had a difficult time getting
the maxima language to behave like I wanted it to. My proof
of concept goal was to take a real-world collection of
routines and get the translator and compatibility functions
to such a state that they could translate this particular
collection. I actually made a good bit of progress to that
end. However, as Richard pointed out, some of the most
interesting and powerful features of Mma are very difficult
or impossible to duplicate, so such a project has this large
inherent limitation. But, I imagine there is a good bit of
application code, like the example that I was working on,
that does not used these interesting features.
I can send some of these other things, if you are interested.
thanks,
John