Feature request (was "parallel cell executing and wxmaxima")

> > Of course (a) your lisp may not have mapcar-parallel, or anything even
> > remotely like that,
> > but just calls to some operating system function, or not even that...
> > and (b) this solves none of the important problems involving shared state,
> 
> ... which is what the message that you replied to (and included below in
> its entirety) said. Thanks.
> 
> The point is that f, g and h can't (currently) be written in Maxima's
> language and do anything non-trivial, because anything non-trivial in
> Maxima touches serious amounts of shared state.

Interesting, but a pity that there is no easy way. It would allow to
express many algorithms in a more natural way (and more natural (and fun)
to experiment with them).

Oliver