Dear Tim, (Sorry for my English)
Thanks a lot for your message. I heard about Axiom for the first time in 1994, when Andrew Tonks gave a talk about Axiom in my University. But I use Mac computers and Axiom was not available for them. Actually, I have seen today in http://axiom-developer.org/axiom-website/download.html that a mac version has been released in August 2014. (although http://axiom-developer.org/axiom-website/faq.html does not mention a Mac version) I have downloaded it and try to use it as a terminal binary. But it has been impossible for me to do anything. I have used some of the binary files in MACOSX/bin and I have gotten only errors. For instance (I copy and paste): ---- /Users/jvarona/Downloads/axiom/mnt/MACOSX/bin/axiom AXIOM variable is not set assuming AXIOM = /usr/local/axiom/mnt/linux The directory for Axiom, /usr/local/axiom/mnt/linux, does not exist. Goodbye. ---- or ---- /Users/jvarona/Downloads/axiom/mnt/MACOSX/bin/AXIOMsys This function is obsolete -- use SET-STARTING-HOLE-DIVISOR instead AXIOM Computer Algebra System Version: Axiom (August 2014) Timestamp: Monday July 28, 2014 at 04:12:34 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Issue )copyright to view copyright notices. Issue )summary for a summary of useful system commands. Issue )quit to leave AXIOM and return to shell. Visit http://axiom-developer.org for more information ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> System error: Cannot open the file /Users/daly/axiom/mnt/MACOSX/algebra/interp.daase. >> System error: The tag |top_level| is undefined. ---- In any case, to use Axiom in terminal mode is, of course, much more ugly and much more complicate than to use a program with a GUI interface. I have read in axiom web about the use of a browser as GUI (similar to sage, I suppose). Is it already available? Yours, Juan Luis > Gentlemen, > > I'm Tim Daly, lead developer on Axiom, an open source computer algebra > system. > > I just finished reading your paper "The Misfortunes of a Trio of > Mathematicians Using Computer Algebra Systems. Can We Trust in Them?" > > You mentioned the "black box" aspect of Mathematica and Maple. > I wonder if you've tried using Axiom which is fully open source. > http://axiom-developer.org > > I will try to decode the MMA notebooks you posted so I can run > your examples in Axiom. > > Tim -- Juan Luis Varona [email protected] http://www.unirioja.es/cu/jvarona/ _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
