Re: Another beginner's question: Lagrange interpolation

Dear Bill, Alasdair,

"Bill Page" <[email protected]> writes:

> I would like to give you an unsolicited caution regarding the use of pattern
> matching rules in Axiom. Although the application of rules work fairly well
> within the Axiom 'Expression' domain really this sort of symbolic
> manipulation of expressions is rather foreign and unnatural in Axiom.


Although pattern matching and rule-based algorithms *may* not be the best way
to program for axiom (and I'm not even sure about that), I believe meanwhile
that writing some programs in the scripting language will give you a very fast
start into axiom.

Martin