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From: mcguire@cs.tamu.edu (Tim McGuire)
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Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: comp.lang.math.symbolic
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Date: 30 Mar 91 18:01:05 GMT
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rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
> BEBO@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Bebo White) writes:
>>This is a CALL FOR DISCUSSION regarding the creation of a new group
>>to discuss symbolic manipulation programs. A working name for this group
>>is comp.lang.math.symbolic.
>>This group could include general discussion of the use of such programs
>>as REDUCE, MACSYMA, MAPLE, SCHOONSCHIP and, of course, MATHEMATICA. There
>>does not appear to be an existing forum directly covering this area.
> Have you tried sci.math.symbolic  ?   (I unsubscribed to that a long time
>ago, because it has very little else other than MAPLE, MACSYMA etc.)

I agree that sci.math.symbolic is the place for general discussion of symbolic
manipulation programs.  Of the individual languages mentioned, there might
be enough Mathematica traffic to warrent a Mathematica group.  Whether the 
proper name would be sci.math.symbolic.mathematica or comp.lang.mathematica
I will leave to others who understand the hierarchy (or anarchy) of 
USENET better than I do.

Tim McGuire
mcguire@cs.tamu.edu

(Follow-ups directed to news.groups -- do we wish to slug this out in
sci.math.symbolic, too?)