Why do you prefer to work with Maxima?



On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 17:49 +0000, Antonio Lapira wrote:
> taking advantage of the discussion, I wanted to ask: is there a gpl software like maxima (symbolic) written in C?

If I'm not mistaken three major mature free-for-download symbolic
mathematics systems -- maxima, reduce, and axiom/fricas/open axiom --
are implemented in lisp.  If true it is interesting; maybe Greenspun's
tenth applies after all.

-- 
Bill Wood