maxima fail... how I can find error?

[Paul Smith]

On 10/7/07, yantux yantux <yantux at yandex.ru> wrote:
> I use maxima. My step:
> [yan at home ~]$ maxima
> Maxima 5.13.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
> Using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.7 (aka GCL)
> Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
> Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
> This is a development version of Maxima. The function bug_report()
> provides bug reporting information.
> (%i1) 1+2 //Maxima not solve expression and I interrupt it (press Ctrl-C), maxima notify:
>
> Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
>
>  Console interrupt.
>
> Automatically continuing.
> To reenable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.
> (%i1)
>
>
> Why maxima not solve 1+2 ?
> How I can find error?

Write '1+2;' instead of '1+2'.

May I offer you a suggestion? There is now an excellent gui for
maxima, which is called wxmaxima and is available from the usual
repositories. See:

http://wxmaxima.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Wxmaxima adds the ';' automatically to the end the instructions.

Paul