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Re: (MAPLE) Converting data from other applications
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Mar 18 15:02:16 1992
To: msug@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 92 15:01:30 EST
From: Reid M. Pinchback <reidmp@Athena.MIT.EDU>
>As far as converting between Maple/Mathematica/Macsyma, this should be
>do-able... the Maple documentation publishes the grammar for Maple,
>so if the same is available for Macsyma and Mathematica then you
>would just need to come up with the appropriate attribute grammars for
>the parsers. There wouldn't even be much AI-ishness to the process,
I was forgetting one thing that would make the process a bit tricky...
Maple at least treats procedures (and other expressions) as first-class
data objects... so you can write code that generates code that you then
evaluate... this adds some difficulty, since you might not be able to
do the entire translation "at compile time".
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Reid M. Pinchback
Faculty Liaison
Academic Computing Services, MIT
