Perhaps more relevant to Greenspun 10: Maxima/Macsyma itself has its own
interpreter (and compiler), similar to Lisp's as of 1969, and therefore a
fraction of Common Lisp, and "buggy" probably applies too....
-s
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Bill Wood <william.wood3 at comcast.net>wrote:
> 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
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