Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> I've gone through your ob-maxima.el, and tried to re-work it to the
>> point where it can be included into Org-mode -- mainly just switching to
>> a couple of Babel "best practices", and replacing some shell script
>> munging with elisp munging.
>>
>> Please try out the attached version (packaged as a patch against the
>> current Org-mode head) and let me know if it works --- i.e., If I
>> haven't broken it too badly.  If it works I think we can fold it into
>> Org-mode immediately.
>>
>> Cheers -- Eric
>
> I've tried this but cannot get it to execute my maxima code:
>
>     #+begin_src maxima
> programmode: false;
> eq: x**2-1 = 0;
> solution: solve(eq, x);
> print(solution);
>     #+end_src
>
> I get the following error:
>

Ah, I see the problem, I used let instead of let*.  Please try this
updated version of the patch.  Sorry I would test this myself, but I
don't have Maxima installed.

Thanks -- Eric