"Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
| My comment above was partly motivated by my "feeling old" | following a meeting with a mostly younger and naturally more | enthusiastic group. The contrast with the Axiom project is | striking. I guess there is just something not very sexy about | working on a software project that is older than the average | age of the developers. For example if you did a poll among | the Sage developers about the merits of Lisp versus Python you | can be quite sure where their sympathies would lie. Lisp is | legacy code. Period. yes. But not everyone agrees. On the other hand, I consider C++ "old" -- it started as "C with Classes" around 1979, with first release in 1989. Still, today, it draws lots of enthusiasm. I suspect, it is not just being old. I very much enjoy working through Axiom codes (even when I scream!), thinking that epople like Jenks invented it. But, some of the issues I have with the project has less to do with its age than some "management" choices that I believe don't push Axiom to more exposure. We've already debated those, so I'm not going to elaborate here. I just hope that as we work toward making the system more accessible, we would attract more (younger) people to revitalize the projects. -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
