On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, C Y wrote: | --- Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > It strikes that people are trying hard to speculate on Fricas goals | > and methods, much more than the originator of the Fricas project :-) | | Point - in fact, a very good point. Waldek isn't joining this fray so | far, but I'll quote from | http://www.math.uni.wroc.pl/~hebisch/fricas/fricas-reg.html | | "FriCAS will use traditional methodology for new developement and | gradually convert other files back to traditional form..." | | (as opposed to literate form, if I understand his statement correctly.) | | "FriCAS will use lightweight developement, allowing much faster | evolution." | | That seems to be sufficiently different from Axiom as I have understood | it to be defined to merit a separate project.
I'm not arguing that Fricas is the same project as Axiom. There is a whole world of difference between being a different project and a hostile project. I've not seen anything in Fricas' published manifesto that would make me (as an Axiom user or Axiom developer) nourrish a hostility with respect to Fricas. In fact, I hope that after this summer heat, we would be all back into the same boat again. | (And is probably a good | canditate for a description on the Axiom website.) In my opinion, it is | also to lead to a system which will diverge quite rapidly from Axiom's | current form. Since Axiom itself will be diverging from its current | point (although probably more slowly) compatibility is likely to be a | difficult goal to strive for. Particularly if one or both projects | start re-examining fundamental design decisions. Well, I believe "compatibility" needs qualification. >From user perspective, I don't really care how the internal algebra is built as far as my existing programs continue to work. | I have seen no responses to my previous question, which I think defines | the issue: are there defining goals of Axiom the project that should | result in development in directions incompatible with those goals | becoming new projects? If you were expecting ans answer from me, I did not give one simply because I do not believe I understand the question correctly to give a meaningful answer. -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
