Re: [Maxima-discuss] Who is maintaining the emacs lisp code, e.g. dbl.el?

[Rocky B. <ro...@gn...>]

On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 4:28 AM, Michel Talon <ta...@lp...> wrote:

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> Le 07/09/2017 à 17:36, Rocky Bernstein a écrit :
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> I started looking at dbl.el, sshell.el and so on with an eye to
> integrating it into realgud <https://github.com/realgud/realgud> The
> copyright in the files hasn't changed from 1998 and is maintained by
> William F. Schelter who unfortunately has passed on.
>
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> One obvious problem is that dbl.el works only with gcl for underlying
> lisp,
>

 I come not to praise dbl.el,  but to bury it.

but maxima works with a whole array of lisps, notably
>
sbcl and clisp are particularly popular, while gcl is maybe less used.
> Moreover as long as one falls on a lisp error (not a maxima
> error) there are good tools for debugging such as slime. If one is
> speaking of a maxima debugger it should be lisp agnostic.
>

I was under the impression that what is written about in
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/docs/manual/maxima_38.html was LISP
independent. Is that true or not? I am familiar with slime (Superior Lisp
Interaction)  which is constantly maintained in GNU emacs. But are there
other *maxima *debuggers?




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