I'm still trying to free Macsyma from its bondage, or even trying to buy it out, but no luck even getting in contact with 2-3 people who have any say about it, unfortunately. -Robert On 2/13/2012 4:55 PM, Bill Gosper wrote:
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So, Bill, have you had any better luck with Macsyma, or some other symbolic software?
-- Gene
I'm *constantly* pasting back and forth between virtual XP Macsyma and Mma. (My PeeSee with Derive and an ancient Maple has died.)
PC Macsyma 2.4 was compiled in NT on an i286 in another century. Besides microcephaly, the underlying Lisp has a storage leak. And there are other serious bugs and deficiencies. Howard Cannon has fixed some of these in 2.5, which he is not allowed to give me.
Mathematica, apart from the Sum braindamage, has amassed awesome functionality and capacity. E.g., factoring that EDS[314] polynomial of degree 6163 with 1090 digit coefficients. An unreleased version with even greater numeric capacity has smashed the pi continued fraction record. WRI clearly still has things under control. I can only hope they will soon recognize the Sum situation as untenable. --rwg _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun