Why do you prefer to work with Maxima?



Dan <vi5u0-maxima at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

   Out of interest, why "kidding"?  What, in principle or in practice,
   would be wrong with trying to compile Maxima using Emacs Lisp with its
   Common Lisp emulation package?
   
Does elisp have bignums yet?

(1+ most-positive-fixnum)
-536870912

You can find some some horrible hacks on the web that will make bignums
available in elisp, but they are indeed horrible and probably wouldn't
bear the pressure Maxima would put on them.