Subject: Building a web interface similar to wolframalpha
From: lluvia_lists at lavabit.com
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 06:29:51 -0400 (EDT)
Hi,
Do you know about some efforts of making a free alternative to
wolframalpha.com with maxima as engine? (I suppose tha maxima is the best
candidate, at least for simbolic calculations)
Sincerely, I prefer the philosophy of having installed the programs in
your computer instead of using internet for solving your needs, but
sometimes it is useful to use software as a service, for example, when you
are away from your computer and you need to use other computer for making
calcs, and it is not good to install that computer ~100MB of software
temporally. For this cases, I consider that having a website under a free
license as the AFERO is a good idea.
It could be good relaxing the matched as correct sintax of the input, or
suggest what you may mean. Also to give as output the exact command that
would generate that answer in your installed maxima.
Thanks for your experience.
Daniel