On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 9:48 AM Georgi Guninski <ggunin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It's very common for computer algebra packages to have memory leaks
>
> At least you are honest about the generalization for the whole
> software development theater.
that's the legacy of developing software in a platform-independent
machine assembly language
known as C or C++, or Fortran :-)
Then, as we know, Greenspun's tenth rule states that:
Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc,
informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of
Common Lisp.
(I'd say, contains something that resembles programming in a sane
functional programming language)
But that's only part of the story, the other parts are:
* type checking is either not done, or gets overridden all the time,
* that one has to connect these "ad hoc, informally-specified,
bug-ridden, slow implementations" to each other.
* etc...
cypari(2) is a good example - we have a poorly documented libpari,
with Pari doing its own poorly documented and executed
memory/GC management, and Python, with its own, rather different, GC
management needs to keep track of
Pari objects, with an optional extra headache imposed by the Sage type system.
Dima
>
> Bill Gates said: "If I had a cent every time Windows crashes,
> I would have been billionaire. Oh, wait..."
>
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