Re: second order functions?

On Tuesday 13 May 2008 16:32:52 you wrote:
> [...]
>
> What exactly are you trying to accomplish using second-order
> functions?  Though they're certainly a powerful and appropriate
> technique for many applications, often in Maxima it is easier to use
> expressions than functions.
>

Maybe I should first say that I am a lisp programmer and new to maxima, so it 
could well be that I am abusing maxima by trying to use it like lisp or 
sometrhing. (By the way, is there a good reference on how to use lisp in 
maxima? I can't seem to find one.)

What I am trying to do is the following. I want to run a number of 
simulations. The number of variables and hence ode's per simulation depends 
on a certain parameter n; and given n the set of ode's can easily be 
generated. That is what I want to do as opposed to each time having to type 
the set of ode's myself for different values of n.

J.