Hi,
I use macsyma ocasionally. It seems very powerful but for some
applications it is hard for me to get macsyma to do what I want. I think that
many times the solution is to write a subroutine in macsyma pseudo lisp. I
have the macsyma manual but it is difficult to read because it assumes a lisp
background.
However my question is more general than this. How does one get involved
in writing symbolic manipulation programs. After all at a certain level alot
of tedious mathematics is manipulation of objects according to well defined
rules. I know the rules and I have access to a computer. What is a good
language to do this stuff in? Lisp is old but are there any promising new
languages around? What about mathematica? Is it written in lisp?
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--John
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