On Apr 1, 8:58 am, root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Michael Abshoff made that comment. He's motivated by wanting
> >to port Sage to a wide range of architectures and keep everything
> >maintainable, since he works incredibly hard on that. He suffers
> >a huge amount trying to deal with build issues on various platforms
> >such as solaris, Linux PPC, etc. I'm sure you understand well
> >how hard building complicated math software is on a range of platforms!
>
> I understand. I have ported Axiom from Maclisp/VMLisp on mainframes to
> workstations to PCs under a dozen lisps and a dozen opsys versions,
> including Dos so I understand his pain. In fact, I think that porting
> Sage is going to absorb a very large portion of your available time
> and energy. The port to the next version of Python should be fun.
To make my comment somewhat clearer: I did not mean the removal of
lisp based code in Sage in general, but from the supported, standard
components. I.e. having interfaces to Maxima, Axiom [or FriCAS or
OpenAxiom] is desirable, but I do not believe those should be in the
core of Sage. If one person is willing to maintain an interface and an
optional spkg for $CAS Sage should support that. But it is quite
different to make it a core component since that requires build
support and also the ability on our end to potentially fix things. So
far there is insufficient expertise to deal with code in Axiom or
Maxima IMHO.
> Trust me, you're underpaying Michael :-)
Thanks. I am aware of that fact. Indeed, I walked away from a
financially potentially much more lucrative project. So: What is my
motivation to work for Sage? It is fun and as long as I can pay my
bills I will always chose the more fun project. Another aspect is also
that decisions are made on technical merit and in the open. One of the
reasons I have walked away from the last two jobs I help was precisely
because my technical recommendations were ignore.
> Tim Daly
> Axiom
Cheers,
Michael
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