On Aug 21, 9:08 am, "Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Perhaps Sage can implement some form of pattern matching and > subsitution such is done by Axiom's rewrite rules? I think that in > many respects these provide a functionality similar to Mathematica. > > There is also a similar re-writing system in Maple (applyrule). Dunno if it matters but there is also pattern matching, substitution, and expression-hacking machinery in Maxima. It's probably well within the realm of possibility to strengthen Maxima's pattern matching by importing an existing Lisp library for that purpose. I haven't looked into the details. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---