Please vote to add Maxima language to the list of approved programming languages in Sourceforge projects

Stefano Ferri wrote:
> Well, thank you all for voting, now there are 16 votes.
> I hope Maxima will be soon added to the list of programming languages!
> It really deserve its place there.
> 
> Stefano


See if Maxima is faster than Mathematica! It took a year for Mathematica to get 
added.

Dave



> 2010/3/14 Dr. David Kirkby <david.kirkby at onetel.net>:
>> Stefano Ferri wrote:
>>> Dear list,
>>>
>>> because I'm developing a program running in Maxima (SymSAP) and it is
>>> hosted on Sourceforge, and Maxima is not listed between the available
>>> programming languages, while Mathematica and Matlab there are, I've
>>> requested the Sourceforge team to add Maxima syntax to the list of
>>> official programming languages.
>>> I've also suggested to add the highlighting rules to better read .mac
>>> files when browsing CVS/SVN, and I've proposed as a solution to start
>>> from the xml rules written for Kate by Alexey Beshenov.
>>>
>>> If you think this could be a nice idea, please visit the Idea Torrent
>>> page on Sourceforge and give a vote to my proposal to see it
>>> implemented. There are a lot of approved ideas, and the Sourceforge
>>> team will only work on the most popular/interesting, so voting is
>>> important. You can fin my proposal here:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://sourceforge.net/apps/ideatorrent/sourceforge/ideatorrent/?keywords=maxima
>>>
>>>
>>> If the above link doesn't work, you can go here:
>>>
>>> https://sourceforge.net/apps/ideatorrent/sourceforge/
>>>
>>> and click on "Popular Ideas", then search for maxima (on the right
>>> side of the page).
>>>
>>> Please help :-)
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Stefano
>> It was me who asked to get Mathematica added.
>>
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1916318&group_id=1&atid=350001
>>
>> I used the default priority. 11 months later, I got an email confirming the
>> priority had been reduced. I then sent a response back saying that given it
>> has taken a year at the default priority, being in my forties I expect I
>> would be dead before it was implemented at the reduced priority.
>>
>> Mathematica was added as a programming language a few days later!
>>
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
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