ceterum censeo 2:

> The problem -- which is a serious one -- is that Sage's symbolic
> integration is by default done using Maxima (this is currently the
> main way in which Maxima is used in Sage; the other big way is for
> solving symbolic equations).  

For my ears (well, eyes :-) this sounds like an insult.  (and I'm
certainly not a maxima developer.)

Why don't you just say something like:

| The problem is that Maxima assumes that a user is at the terminal
| answering questions.

(By the way, Christian Krattenthaler's hyp and hyp.q for mathematica are
two brilliant packages that assume the very same thing.  This doesn't
make the package less brilliant)

I can imagine (but I don't know) that the maxima developers are
unwilling (or even unable) to change that behaviour.  In this case one
could state precisely this:

| And the maxima developers are unwilling/unable to change this
| behaviour.

Statements like the one above are one of the reasons I am unwilling to
really join sage.

Martin

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