Re: Mathematica vs. Lisp

From: David Golden (david.golden_at_oceanfree.net)
Date: 06/20/04 

Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:05:43 +0100

Sashank Varma wrote:

>
> There are stories somewhere on the net that when Wolfram was
> a wunderkind at Caltech, he used Macsyma -- the original
> mathematical software package, written in Mac Lisp -- and
> talked to some of the programmers about it.

Worth noting that Common Lisp Maxima is a descendant
of Macsyma, still around thanks to William Schelter
getting it open sourced before he died. Pretty cool,
and in debian with the rather understated package description
"A fairly complete computer algebra system".

http://maxima.sourceforge.net/

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