Seeking areas of little or weak documentation

Sol Lederman wrote:

> Henry and Richard,
> 
> Thank you for taking the time to respond so thoroughly to my post.
> 
> I see a common thread in your responses -- that there are areas of Maxima
> where information is not well organized/catalogued.
> 

One of the areas which would benefit from a better documentation is the part
36, Rules and patterns. This is a difficult subject, and frequently 
questions about it appear in this forum. By collecting all this information,
and playing with the program, perhaps one could enhance this documentation.
This is a set of features which work very well in Mathematica and are very
well documented in the Mathematica book. This perhaps could help as example.
Robert Dodier is the expert on these features, he certainly could also help.

In another department, R. Toy has recently added lbfgs to the share 
directory. I suppose this is related to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFGS_method
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-BFGS
but there is zero documentation. this would be a target for experimentation 
and documentation on a limited domain.

I would say the same for colnew but i am working on it, because i have 
special interest on this program. 

There are other interesting programs which are presently broken such as
share/gentran. Dan Stanger is working on that, probably it will be an 
interesting target of documentation  because gentran functionality is nice.

 

-- 
Michel Talon