[Fwd: [Maxima] Python vs Lisp: was RE: how to pass the name of a variable as argument?]

[Jaap Spies]

Look at this and the follow up!

Jaap

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Subject: [Maxima] Python vs Lisp: was RE: how to pass the name of a variable as argument?
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 08:12:58 -0700
From: Richard Fateman <fat...@cs.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: fat...@cs.berkeley.edu
Organization: UC Berkeley
To: 'Stavros Macrakis' <macr...@alum.mit.edu>, 'Robert Dodier' <robert...@gmail.com>
CC: max...@math.utexas.edu, "'Raymond Toy \(RT/EUS\)'" <raymo...@ericsson.com>
References: <20080502001...@cs-wsok.swansea.ac.uk> <eb9c4b9a0805020900l757...@mail.gmail.com> <482052F1...@ericsson.com>
<eb9c4b9a0805131234y21f...@mail.gmail.com> <8b356f880805140639j5e7...@mail.gmail.com>

See
http://norvig.com/python-lisp.html
which may be a little dated, but perhaps Python advocates can comment.

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[William Stein]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Jaap Spies <j.s...@hccnet.nl> wrote:
>
> Look at this and the follow up!
>

The link to the thread is here:

http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2008/011533.html

(Jaap could you post links to threads. It would save me a minute :-)

The posts in that thread are interesting.

Some choice quotes:

"If you think using Python by itself will automagically produce something
more than we have today without alienating all the existing users of the
maxima language, by all means go ahead. Ray"

The response by Robert Dodier (lead Maxima developer):

"OK.
Robert"

Another post: "Frankly I'm surprised that no one yet has been able
to encapsulate Maxima's quirks (asking questions, printing out
unsolicited information, occasionally giving internal errors, etc.) in
such a way that scripting tools can use Maxima effectively.
[...] I think it would be a fascinating design exercise to see if the
advantages of the Python language could be combined with the
advantages of the Maxima language. But by all means circulate your
design documents or
even a prototype implementation...."

[Jaap Spies]

William Stein wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Jaap Spies <j.s...@hccnet.nl> wrote:
>> Look at this and the follow up!
>>
>
> The link to the thread is here:
>
> http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2008/011533.html
>
> (Jaap could you post links to threads. It would save me a minute :-)
>

I'll try. Yes life is short! But I read this in a mailing list.

Jaap