I don't have time to dally with this right now, but I googled for
Yacas, and it looks cool.  Thanks for your work!  

(looking forward to have time to play with it)

Joshua


On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:48:05PM -0700, cogitare at ixpres.com wrote:
> (Hope this .cs attachment is formatted properly...)
> 
> This experiment shows that it is possible to connect
> Squeak to Yacas when Yacas is running in server mode
> (and that Yacas actually runs in server mode on
> Windows XP!)
> 
> Yacas is "Yet Another Computer Algebra System" and
> is intriguing. One possibility is to use Yacas to
> test Squeak computations. Another is simply to add
> the power of Yacas to Squeak. And have some fun,
> I guess.
> 
> I added Class comments explaining how to set up the
> experiment. The preamble to the changeset explains
> that I hacked this together knowing *nothing* about
> Squeak network programming. I just looked through the
> Squeak code and found the simplest way to send a
> command to Yacas via TCP/IP and to get a response
> back. If anyone would (please) provide me some
> direction on the "correct" Squeak network classes
> to use and perhaps a few suggestions on what is
> needed, I would be appreciative.
> 
> I hope you like Yacas in Squeak and find this idea
> useful.
> 
> Best ...


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