[Maxima] Discussion about arrays and matrices in Maxima

[Raymond Toy]

Žiga Lenarčič wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On 19. May, 2009, at 1:30 AM, Richard Fateman wrote:
>   
>> See if you can find out about the matlisp package. http:// 
>> matlisp.sourceforge.net/
>>     
> I'm aware of Matlisp - with some modifications it could be used for  
> matrices of 'double-float type. The only problem (I think) there is  
> with Matlisp is that it requires a FFI to BLAS/LAPACK  libraries.  
> Currently (as far as I know) GCL doesn't support that, which means  
> most of the Maxima's userbase would be left out. Perhaps Matlisp kind  
> of system can be made to work with f2cl converted LAPACK until we  
> have some other Lisp on Windows...
>   
Maxima already contains an f2cl-translated version of LAPACK.  See the
lapack share package.

Ray