On Tuesday, May 09, 2006 7:35 PM Norman Ramsey wrote: > ... > We have found that for a moderately large project (say over > 10,000 lines of code) an outline (or even a set of outlines) is > not enough. We rely heavily on a LaTeX table of contents (our > best analog to a Leo outline), but we also rely on diagrams and > overview chapters. This is all very expensive in time and effort, > and I would say that in my research group we seem to be able to > afford this effort only roughly every 5 to 10 years. Of course > we are a very small shop; your mileage may vary. >
Thanks for your comments and sharing your experience. Tim Daly often mentions a "30 year" horizon for Axiom which perhaps puts such an effort within reach for at least some current Axiom developers but I fear that our available (volunteer) resources are probably less than yours and our problem is larger than just 10,000 lines of code. :( > > I think this is very similar to what Tim Daly has written > > about the need to view large complex literate programs like > > Axiom from the point of view of a "crystal" with multiple > > facets. > > Also quite interesting. And expensive, as every facet must > be polished. > Apparently true, but as the song says (Edwin Starr): "There's got to be a better way ..." :) > > Organizing a project to take best advantage of all this [Leo] > > involves some considerable effort. I am continuing to try to > > work up the energy to tackle Axiom with this tool. > > Too true, and good luck :-) > > > Discussions of these sorts of questions used to enliven > comp.programming.literate. May I have your permission to > post this mail? > Certainly. I guess I should visit some time. Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer