Re: Meaning of module translated-packages?

On 4/19/26 7:42 AM, Richard Fateman wrote:

> Translated from macsyma / maxima language into lisp, I think.

Really? I didn’t know that these were originally in macysma. (Well 
obviously not hypergeometric.lisp and nfloat.lisp which are recent 
things written by Barton.)

Do you know if the originals exist anywhere? I think they’d only be of 
historical interest.

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> On Sun, Apr 19, 2026, 10:22 AM Raymond Toy <[email protected]> wrote:
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>     Does any one know why the module “translated-packages” is called
>     that? I’m just mostly curious about the name. What is being
>     translated? The original papers? Something else?
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>     At the very least it seems hypeo.lisp, hyp.lisp,
>     hypergeometric.lisp and nfloat.lisp could be moved to a new module
>     named “hypergeometric”. Maybe plot.lisp could be it’s own module
>     or maybe part of graphics-drivers?
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