symbolic in C, was: Why do you prefer to work with Maxima?
Subject: symbolic in C, was: Why do you prefer to work with Maxima?
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:40:27 +0000 (UTC)
On 2012-11-27, Antonio Lapira <antoniolapira at yahoo.it> wrote:
> is there a gpl software like maxima (symbolic) written in C?
I'm guessing at your motivation for this question.
If you ask because you know C and want to work with symbolic
computation: just learn Lisp and be happy.
If you ask because you want to merge Maxima and an existing C program:
most Lisp implementations have some so-called foreign function
interface, which allows calls to C functions and vice versa.
Feel free to clarify what you actually want.
best
Robert Dodier