> As simple as possible: Axiom has a kernel in written in C or LISP and > the rest is Aldor. Bill, would you consider that too simple?
AARRGGGHHH! C is one of the most non-portable languages I know. an #ifdef here, an #ifdef there, here a #else, there #define, under there 3 #includes with 17 subincludes, long, long long, double long, uint_64, spanned doubles, .... i've spent half my life moving C programs around and i just spent a few days this past week moving 30 year old C programs to the MAC. Half a million lines of lisp code move without one #+ or compiler conditional. 500 lines of C take 3 days. Only the axiom C code won't work on windows. porting code has been a very large percentage of my professional life and C has been the largest pain. The only issues I run into with lisp is changing dialects (maclisp -> vmlisp -> common lisp) but now that common lisp is widely avaiable as a standard language the porting issues have evaporated. and you couldn't do axiom in C anyway. show me a C program that reads data, creates a C program, compiles it, links it, and runs it to call other C programs.... or one that can do a closure over the stack. and not just in principle but in practice. please, no more C code. t _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
