On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:32 AM, David Joyner wrote: > > > I just want to pass along some ideas I got from Sage developers at the > recent NSF-CDI conference in Rhode Island. I don't know how feasible > they are. >
I guess you meant "Maple developers"? > (1) One Maple developer suggested that the pexpect interface > Sage<->Maple could be improved using the Openmaple API > (http://www.maplesoft.com/applications/view.aspx?SID=4383). > Instead of passing strings back-and-forth, you simply pass pointers, > which he said would be faster. > Yes. I've played with this a little. There is some good example C code in the Maple distribution. The infamous new (new with release 9, I think is was, the current release is 13) java-based user interface uses Java bindings to this same API. Here a few more recent references: http://www.maplesoft.com/support/help/view.aspx?path=OpenMaple/C/API http://www.mapleprimes.com/forum/seeking-c-library-for-symbolic-manipulation http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/htdocs/PerlMaple/PerlMaple.html http://code.google.com/p/pymaple (Good idea, but doesn't look like anything is happen here yet.) Perhaps some useful code here: http://dev.se.wtb.tue.nl/projects/chi-tooling/browser/trunk/chinetics/chinetics/solvers/pymaple?rev=1467 So far as I know there is no licensing problem with linking to the OpenMaple API dynamic library but of course to use it one would actually have to install a licensed version of Maple. > (2) Another person suggested that if one was to ask for Maple support > in any sort of collaborative project (Hoon Hong suggested that research > on interfaces is important and needs further development, for example), > the best person to ask would be the guy in charge of R+D, whose name > I have forgotten. Is there any objection to trying to pursue this angle? (I > have no idea how fruitful it will be, but IMHO it can't hurt to ask.) > I agree. Why not? I used to use Maple a lot. Now I just as often use Maple from within the Sage notebook. I would be interested in helping in a project like this. Regards, Bill Page. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
