Documentation on 'Maxima as a CAS engine'

On 9/8/12 12:40 AM, Jean-Paul Roy wrote:
> In the same vein as Evan's question on a "student book" on Maxima, in which documentation may I find an explicit *tutorial* (not only sample code) on using Maxima as a CAS engine callable from another programming language (say Python) ?
> Thanks,
>
>     -jpr
>
> _______________________________________________
> Maxima mailing list
> Maxima at math.utexas.edu
> http://www.math.utexas.edu/mailman/listinfo/maxima

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/macsyma/docs/userg.pdf

is a 288+ page User Guide

I think that it is mostly relevant to Maxima.

rjf