Hi Bill. | I agree that using *both* Lisp and BOOT is probably more | complicated than it needs to be. But my solution to this | would be precisely opposite the solution proposed by Tim. | What I would greatly prefer is to replace the Lisp in | Axiom with BOOT, where possible. I think the only place | where Lisp is required is in the bootstrap for the BOOT | compiler itself. And even there, BOOT could be weened from | it's mother Lisp and live on it's own like ML, Aldor, and | some other languages that started out in Lisp - but I am | not really advocating that in the short term. | | If someone thinks Lisp is essential to Axiom then I would | be glad to see some examples.
It clearly isn't, although as you imply there are practical constraints due to pre-existing work which basically does the job and insufficient person-work-hours. | In my writing I may appear to | be overly opinionated, With respect to "overly", not that I've noticed. | but really deep down my intention is | to be open-minded. :) That is also clear. Cheers Mike Thomas _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
