Re: Axiom or Maxima?

Francogrex wrote:
This may be a bit offtopic
yes.

since it's not related to a technical CL
question: There are those 2 computer algebra systems: OpenAxiom and
Maxima; both are based on Lisp.
Yes. There is also Reduce, Jacal, and probably other systems.

I wanted to know whether you have a
preference/recommendation for one or the other.
Yes.
Which one of the two
do you think is a more powerful/mature CAS (based on the scope and
strength of solving a wide application of mathematical problems)?
Maxima. But you have not defined your criteria sufficiently.
Which is at the same level as Wolfram's Mathematica?
Again, you have not defined your criterion. Mathematica is clearly far far above the level of Maxima and Axiom in terms of price. Oh, maybe you meant something else? Why don't you make a study of this and tell us what you think.
And last but not
least which one of the two is based on more ANSI compliant Common
Lisp?

Why do you ask? How do you grade (partial?) compliance? Many people use CAS through front ends that are not written in Lisp at all, but in C, Tcl, emacs-lisp, TeX, etc.

If you do not care about such things, but are trying to slurp up some computer algebra system in some larger (lisp-based) application, why don't you just say what you are trying to do instead of asking people to read your mind?






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