On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 3:22 AM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:25 AM, mabshoff
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> > On Apr 21, 9:09 am, Martin Rubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Just a quick note now, maybe more later:
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> > Hi
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:25 AM, mabshoff
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> On Apr 21, 9:09 am, Martin Rubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Just a quick note now, maybe more later:
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> Hi Martin,
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> > > "I know of three open source implementations of lisp that do not need to
> > > boots
On Apr 21, 9:09 am, Martin Rubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just a quick note now, maybe more later:
Hi Martin,
> > "I know of three open source implementations of lisp that do not need to
> > bootstrap themselves"
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> What's wrong with bootstrapping, and in particular with
> sbcl?http://ww
Just a quick note now, maybe more later:
"William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I don't understand the Axiom distribution enough to understand
> how big it is, but my impression is that it is *also* huge. Looking
> in the src/src/algebra directory there are many hundreds of
> thousands o
On Apr 20, 5:23 pm, "David Roe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 5:13 PM, TimDaly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > > I'm surprised by how convinced you are that using a specific
> > > technology/language -- literate programming -- can be a silver
> > > bullet to solve such
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 2:13 PM, TimDaly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > I'm surprised by how convinced you are that using a specific
> > technology/language -- literate programming -- can be a silver
> > bullet to solve such a difficult problem. I think peer review,
> > and many many other
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 5:13 PM, TimDaly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > I'm surprised by how convinced you are that using a specific
> > technology/language -- literate programming -- can be a silver
> > bullet to solve such a difficult problem. I think peer review,
> > and many many other
> I'm surprised by how convinced you are that using a specific
> technology/language -- literate programming -- can be a silver
> bullet to solve such a difficult problem. I think peer review,
> and many many other things, are steps in the right direction,
> but *not* solutions to the problem. I
> Sorry I was mainly interested in how many lines of code, in
> some rough sense, are in the Axiom codebase, since this
> whole thread started discussing the difficulties involved with
> the code size of Axiom (since it's about combining source
> code for project). I'm still really curious how b
On Apr 20, 9:07 pm, TimDaly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The 4Ms cannot make this kind of leap. The corporate structure won't
> allow anything so innovative to set direction. In fact, I doubt you
> could get Google, despite its corporate cleverness, to even consider
> funding the development of
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 12:07 PM, TimDaly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > > A good unifying graphical interface is extremely important to creating
> > > something that is a viable alternative to
> > > Maple/Mathematica/Magma/Matlab. In some sense it is perhaps it
> > > is *the* most im
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 11:13 AM, TimDaly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > How does the fricas/axiom source code layout work?
> > Is it all written in pamphlets that lisp is generated from?
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> There is a bit of a philosophical split between Axiom and
> Fricas about source code layout and it
> > A good unifying graphical interface is extremely important to creating
> > something that is a viable alternative to
> > Maple/Mathematica/Magma/Matlab. In some sense it is perhaps it
> > is *the* most important thing.
I fully agree that a unifying graphical interface is extremely
impor
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 1:01 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I hope you fix this and submit a patch :-)
Yeah I know talk is cheap. :-) but if there is no users what is the point?
Same happened to the livecd. I was thinking on creating an optional package
for OpenAxiom but just a
Hi William,
On 04/20/2008 05:29 PM, William Stein wrote:
>> > On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 3:10 AM, Martin Rubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > > I don't have the guts to send this to a public mailing list. I
>> probably
>> > > should. If you want to, you have my permission.
>> > >
>> >
> How does the fricas/axiom source code layout work?
> Is it all written in pamphlets that lisp is generated from?
There is a bit of a philosophical split between Axiom and
Fricas about source code layout and it is fairly fundamental.
Axiom has everything in pamphlet files and is gradually movi
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Alfredo Portes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Hi William,
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> Given that I started this thread, I will try to share some of my ideas
> regarding your questions.
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> I am not an Axiom developer, probably Bill Page can answer
> these questions better than anybo
Hi William,
Given that I started this thread, I will try to share some of my ideas
regarding your questions.
I am not an Axiom developer, probably Bill Page can answer
these questions better than anybody.
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 10:29 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Sage
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 6:57 AM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Hi Martin, Bill:
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> Thanks for these very interesting emails! Some of my reactions are below.
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> - David Joyner
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> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Bill Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Martin,
> >
> >
Hi Martin!
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 3:57 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Hi Martin, Bill:
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> Thanks for these very interesting emails! Some of my reactions are below.
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> - David Joyner
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> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Bill Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Mart
Hi Martin, Bill:
Thanks for these very interesting emails! Some of my reactions are below.
- David Joyner
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Bill Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Martin,
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> I think discussing things like off the email lists does more damage to
> the community then it would
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