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Please don’t call this “Symbolics,” that name is already taken by the Lisp Machine vendor that had its own excellent CAS, Maxima, derived from the original MACS
by eschaton 6y ago
Please don’t call this “Symbolics,” that name is already taken by the Lisp Machine vendor that had its own excellent CAS, Maxima, derived from the original MACSYMA at MIT.
- lispm 6y agoMacsyma was the name of the CAS from the defunct Symbolics, Inc.. Maxima is an open source variant, based on an earlier version derived from the original Macsyma code base at MIT.
- eigenspace 6y agoFirst of all, we call it "Symbolics.jl", not "Symbolics" (same with all julia packages) so that lifts the ambiguity already ambiguity, but even still almost every word imaginable has been used in multiple, conflicting contexts. It's fine.