The people of julia language are trying to make a language that can replace? R and Matlab.? Lisp is used to manipulate the AST, there is
a small Lisp developed by one of the core members of the group (femlisp) available in github.
I think that julia could be a good replacement for the maxima language.? Julia can use LAPLACK and other libraries, and recently
in the list there has been some talks about CPYTHON developers trying to link with julia.
For julia developers adding symbolics capabilities could be very interesting.?
For maxima developers, being able to interface with R, C and fortran could be also very interesting,
so I think this is a win-win situation.
?Best., gluemath.