Re: [Maxima-discuss] How can I call Maxima functions from a language different from Common Lisp? (FFI or server/client, doesn't matter)

[Gunter K. <gu...@pe...>]

>> if they are accessing anything "symbolic" they either have to
>duplicate
>> the parsing mechanism already in Lisp/Maxima
>> to obtain information from strings,  or find another
>> way of passing more sophisticated data in streams.    Or perhaps they
>> are linking to a CAS for some trivial response, like the one from
>nroots()
>> guaranteed to be an integer.
>
>I agree with what you have written. But curiously no frontend to Maxima
>takes this approach, as far as I am aware.

wxMaxima does do so, in a way. It only doesn't parse the lisp expressions in the programming language it was written in (C++) but comes with a lisp function instead that reverses the parsing process.I don't know if altdisplay was advanced enough 10 years ago when wxMaxima was written that it could have been used instead. It's MathML output looks like it could serve as an intermediate language. But MathML feels like it is being rather new so that might have required both altdisplay and a time machine.

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