On Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 8:47:40 AM UTC-8, William wrote: > > > Basic question: is there any reason whatsoever for us to even have a > pexpect interface to maxima anymore? Nils Bruin (and others) put a > massive amount of effort into a C library version (using ecl) over the > years... > > Not for the use of calculus in sage. However, sage's pexpect interfaces in general are pretty useful and it can be worthwhile to be able to compute with separate maxima executables (so that the lisp is *inside* the sage process, and can be a different (higher performance?) lisp. So yes, I think there is some benefit to maintaining the maxima pexpect interface, and for ease of transition, maintain a side to maxima_lib that is compatible with pexpect interfaces. Whether the benefit is worth the cost is another matter ...
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