Oh, that's terrible, why would a program need its own programming language? Back in the 1960s, whene Axiom was initially developed, computer programming was in a primitive stage and communication was very difficult, as there was no internet. I think that having its own language, SPAD, is a big hindrance to its development today.
http://www.euclideanspace.com/maths/standards/program/spad/syntax/index.htm As for Maxima, it is GPL, its code cannot be copied. In any case I suggest to find someone who is practical with Axiom's SPAD in order to see if parts of it can be copied into SymPy. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.