May I ask what brings up the quest to rename Maxima? I must have missed
it... if it was already explained (I am aware of some previous question,
or thoughts, but not so recently).
Thanks,
Henry
On 12/17/2010 07:05 PM, Richard Fateman wrote:
>
> The letter to Bill Schelter from the US Dept of Energy says..
>
> Dear Dr. Schelter:
>
> RE: DOE-MACSYMA
>
> This is in reply to your request of September 17, 1998, requesting a
> license to prepare and distribute derivative works from the copy of
> DOE-MACSYMA software obtained from the NESC. ...
> etc...
>
> So the name of the program is DOE-Macsyma.
>
> We are free to invent another name, like SymaCas, but that does not
> help the people who want to find
> references to Macsyma or DOE-Macsyma or the computer algebra system
> Maxima derived from
> DOE-Macsyma.
>
> In tribute to the late Leslie Neilsen, we could call it Shirley..
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A5t5_O8hdA
>
> except that is apparently also the name of a band..
>
> RJF
>
>
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