Hello all,
sorry it was not my intention to force you to do what you don't really
want. I only thought it would be a good idea to have a unique name and
it wold help Maxima to get more popular. Since somebody wrote on the
frond page: "We welcome suggestions and contributions from the
community of Maxima users." I did it so. So if there are no interest
to rename Maxima, it would be ok for me. I can live with this name,
since I live with them for about 7 years.
Thank you for this nice piece of software. I love to use Maxima and do
recommend it all people who ask me about mathematical software.
Sorry if i did annoying somebody with my suggestion it was not my intention.
So have a nice day.
Bye
Waldemar
PS.: Here is an practice sheet (German) it is for fricas, there are no
words like math, algebra, cas ... .There are only exercises and
descriptions of them:
http://www.iazd.uni-hannover.de/~rubey/ComputerAlgebra1011/Woche4CASUe.pdf
I could only find this document because fricas has a unique name.
2010/12/17 Waldemar <waldemar4u at googlemail.com>:
> Dear Maxima community,
> It is very hard to find some additional information about Maxima on
> internet, because the most google hits are about nissan maxima,
> maximas and minimas of some functions and so on. So I would like to
> suggest, to rename Maxima in some more unique name.
>
> Here are my suggestions:
>
> Since Maxima is a descendant of Macsyma how about:
>
> MacsymaNG <- Macsyma new/next generation.
> OpenMacsyma <- similar to DOE Macsyma.
> MacsymaS <- ?Macsyma Schelter's edition.
>
> Or sine Maxima is fully implemented in Common Lisp, how about:
>
> Maclisy <- Mathematical Common Lisp System or ?Mathematical Calculation System.
>
> So what think you about it?
>
> BTW: Does anybody know what Macsyma stands for?
>
> Have a nice day.
>
> Bye.
>
> Waldemar.
>