davis@pacific.pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu ("John E. Davis") (07/13/90)
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? -- --John bitnet: davis@ohstpy internet: davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu