I'm not sure I understand exactly what you want, but have you looked at the
'translate' and 'compile' functions? With appropriate declarations, you can
translate your Maxima expressions into Lisp and compile it into numerical
code that is not much slower than C or Fortran.
-s
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:44, Akshay Srinivasan <akshaysrinivasan at gmail.com
> wrote:
> Hello,
> I've been going the round-about way for my mechanics problems, doing
> symbolics in Maxima, generating code for solving the thus obtained ODE by C
> through Lisp/Python, then doing visualisation in LISP with cl-opengl.
> I'm not all that experienced with Lisp (or Maxima for that matter!)
> yet, but I sense that I can generate code on the fly using macros. I know
> maxima has a lisp mode; but from what I've seen, it
> does not strike me as a particularly clean interface; by "clean", I mean
> something like Sussman and Wisdom's scmutils.
> I can probably do something like replace maxima's function tags in
> the expression list with the usual operators and put it inside a function
> definition; but is there a better interface for Lisp ? Is there a better way
> of going about this ? Has someone done something like this before with
> Maxima - so that I can steal their code :) ?
>
> Cheers,
> Akshay
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