In fact, this is also a question of future direction, since I hope very much
that Aldor will become *the* language for Axiom.
What features of Aldor do you want to add to Axiom?
I am much in favour of Martin's position. There are 3 languages...
Citing from http://www.aldor.org/docs/HTML/chap18.html#5
A source of possible confusion is that there are now three similar but
different programming languages associated with AXIOM:
* Aldor, a new programming language;
* the language supported by the old system compiler;
* the language supported by the system interpreter.
I simply think that Aldor is more advanced and better described in the
Aldor User Guide (http://www.aldor.org/docs/HTML/) than is the spad
language. Well the Aldor compiler still has bugs, but that is some other
issue.
I'd simply wish to reduce the number of languages. And I agree with
Martin that Aldor should be the way to go.
At the moment the situation is confusing. I have not yet heard a
suggestion of whether to write new Axiom library code by using the spad
compiler or the Aldor compiler.
Ralf
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