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Tuesday, 20th of March 2018, 11:47:43 UTC
11:49:10
fittestbits
I needed to plan a littler further in advance and my wife is having some health issues, so it's probably good that we didn't plan on attending.
13:04:59
beach
Hey loke. How are things?
13:05:10
loke
beach: I was wondering, will the politically correct crowd be upset if I name my Maxima for CLIM... Climaxima?
13:07:30
loke
Yeah, let's see if it becomes useful first, however
13:07:52
loke
I'ce started considering implementing my own maths formatter in CLIM that will format the Maxima internal representation.
13:08:03
beach
Why? I name things when I stick them in a repository.
13:08:22
loke
The format is simple, like: ((QUOTIENT) $X ((PRODUCT) 1 $Y))
13:08:31
beach
Could also be used for a Texmacs clone.
13:08:42
loke
Well, then a TeX parser is needed
13:08:53
loke
The good thing here is that the internal format is already list-based.
13:08:57
beach
No Texmacs is a Wysiwyg editor.
13:09:10
loke
I've just started looking at it
13:09:16
loke
We'll see what can be done
13:09:31
loke
but the Maxima mainloop is reasonably simple, and does what you'd expect
13:09:56
loke
(except that the code is very maclisp-inspired. I presume you saw the discussion I just had with JD)
13:10:32
beach
Actually, not very much. I was out. I should go back and read it.
13:11:25
loke
Just some funny observations about the code base :-)
13:14:16
beach
Just read it. It looks like it could use some modernization. Not sure anyone is up for that though.
Tuesday, 20th of March 2018, 23:47:43 UTC