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- Prof. Jaime Villate taught us physics at U. Porto and made heavy use of Maxima. Good times :Dby joaonmatos
- This looks like an open source alternative to Mathematica/MathLab/Maple running in the browser.
Please correct me if I'm off...
As there's no project description that I quickly found, I came to this conclusion myself.
by cies - >> This looks like an open source alternative to Mathematica/MathLab/Maple running in the browser.
Yes. If you're on Linux try out wxMaxima as a local app. I'm not sure how to get the Windows version of wxMaxima since you end up in some weird sourceforge hell trying to get an installer.
by phkahler - Wikipedia writes: Maxima is based on a 1982 version of Macsyma
Perhaps because it has such a long history and because this was published in a Lisp website, Maxima was considered known.
by radiator - There used to be an ECL+Maxima app for Android, but it fell in one of the purges of older programs from the Play store a while back. I was always surprised it didn't use ABCL.by shawn_w
- I wouldn't assume ABCL runs on Android. It's not listed as a supported runtime on their website.by pdw
- Some folks have such a Java allergy that they rather endure the pains of NDK tooling, than accept a bit of Java on their efforts, I imagine.by pjmlp
- ABCL is really slow.by stassats
- by ismaelbej
- Very cool! Love to see old but still useful GPL licensed FSF projects. I had Maxima on my old Lisp Machine, and 24 years ago when I first interviewed at Google, one of the developers of Maxima was also interviewing and we had a while to talk in the sign in area before going off for our interviews. We were amused that two old Common Lispers were at the same place at the same time.
When you try the linked browser web app, start with the documentation link, fairly easy to use.