Re: Maxima for Windows?

Axel Vogt wrote:

However I would like to avoid file transfer or communication. Say I want
to call Maxima from Maple (which has a C interface for programming). It
would be convenient to do it without writing to files, but sending or
receiving strings directly. I will try to look at SAGE.

There are various user interfaces which talk to Maxima via a socket
connection. See http://maxima.sourceforge.net/relatedprojects.shtml
for a list of user interfaces. Probably the first one to look (because
it's pretty simple) is Xmaxima, which is distributed as part of Maxima.

Also each Lisp implementation has a foreign function interface (FFI)
i.e. a C function call interface. (There is not yet a FFI which works
for all Lisp implementations.) If you choose a specific Lisp, you
can use the FFI for that Lisp. If you go that route, I'll recommend
Clisp -- ANSI CL compliant, good documentation, few bugs
(although Clisp is relatively slow compared to some other Lisps).

Unfortunately Maxima was designed with a pervading assumption
that there is always someone at the console (to read messages
which are printed and not a return value, and, what's worse, to
respond to queries from Maxima like "Is x > 0 ?").
I have some ideas about a strict one input / one output mode for
Maxima but I haven't gotten anywhere on it.

FWIW
Robert Dodier

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