dan hayes <zmth <at> yahoo.com> writes:
> I have the? purchased version 2.2 of Macsyma around justprior to 1999
> and was most unhappy to receive the bad news that they wentout of business.
> NOw my question how similar is this Maxima - can it doall the things that
> Macsyma did and perhaps fixed some of the bugs ? Willit clash with my
> current purchased version like just prior to 1999 ? as I am currently
> using it quite often?or can it just? add to it or what?
As I understand the history of both projects, Maxima and Macsyma
diverged in the early 1980's, as Macsyma was developed commerically
and Maxima academically. At this point Macsyma and Maxima probably
have disjoint sets of features and bugs. I wouldn't expect, without
testing, that every Macsyma program works the same in Maxima, and
vice versa.
Hope this helps,
Robert Dodier