Re: [OctDev] Automatic code generation

[Sergei Steshenko]

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> From: Martin Helm <address@hidden>
> To: Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden>
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> Sent: Friday, November 4, 2011 5:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [OctDev] Automatic code generation
> 
> Am Freitag, 4. November 2011, 08:27:35 schrieb Sergei Steshenko:
> 
>>  'maxima' has a scripting language of her own, and it wasn't too 
> dificult for
>>  me to learn some basic things about it.
>> 
> Which is suitable for symbolic manipulation and not so much for creating 
> source code for other languages. maxima is programmed in common lisp and it 
> is 
> one of its documented and supported features that you can write your own user 
> defined functions in common lisp.
> 
>>  I am using 'maxima' for symbolic manipulations, and some Perl after 
> it to do
>>  some "replication" (I need to convert two similarly looking 
> expressions, so
>>  I do the conversion for one and generate the other from the first one) and
>>  name substitution.
>> 
> I see your point, which is something I would like to avoid - to have yet 
> another layer of scripting language which acts as an intermediate layer 
> between the systems. Of course ymmv and obviously it does, nothing wrong with 
> your way doing it.
> 
>>  The later can be done in 'maxima' herself, but I know Perl much 
> better than
>>  'maxima'.
>> 
> As I tried to indicate  above, in maxima's own scripting language it will be 
> a 
> pain to do that as far as I can see (but I will have to look at it again, 
> amybe it only looks at the moment like that and turns out to be easier) and I 
> look for quite some time now for an excuse to code something in lisp again :)
>

Revisit 'maxima' documentation ( 
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/documentation.html ) - there is I/O, there are 
string manipulation functions, there are I/O format control features, there is 
even a package which deals with regular expressions - in my case it is

maxima-5.24.0/share/maxima/5.24.0/src/nregex.lisp
.

Overall I think 'maxima' scripting language can be used in imperative, 
functional and OO way.

Regards,
  Sergei.