On Aug 20, 11:18 pm, Tim Lahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Commands to parse expressions.
Maxima has various expression-hacking functions. Most objects are expressions. > 2. Like M. Hampton, I miss implicit variables. Maxima makes default assumptions about variables, and doesn't require them to be declared before use. This is part of Maxima's general sloppiness but it does make for ease of use. > 3. Somewhat related to #1, is the ability to make new variables/ > function names from old ones. Maxima function concat. > To illustrate this, my Maple code for this is: I glanced at the code and it looks like it should be translateable to Maxima. Maybe I'll try it this weekend. I'm pushing Maxima here for two reasons; one is that the solution for the problems stated here might be close at hand after all. More selfishly, I'd like to get more people using and (I hope) developing Maxima rather than reinventing its wheels. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
