Richard Fateman wrote:
>
> Getting a superb GUI on Windows for a particular Lisp would probably
> cover 90% of Maxima users or more. (According to Gartner group, 95% of
> all PCs run Windows, 3% MacOS, 2% Linux)
>
I think this is total crap. Maxima has potential to be used mostly by
mathematicians and physicists, and such people would prefer to cut ones arm
than using a Windows machine. This is even more true for maxima, since
they would run Maple or Mathematica if they did not have strong prejudice
against non free software. By the way, a good documentation would be far
more useful to advance the use of maxima than a completely useless GUI.
At present, the main objection my colleagues have against Maxima is the lack
of proper documentation (the info manual is barely one, being extremely
cryptic, and difficult to search) and sometimes the slowness.
--
Michel Talon