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| Axiom has the opportunity to be the base of computational mathematics. When it manages to meet the needs of the working computational mathematicians. It cannot do that by building self-made ghetto with an autistic attitute of the workers. I have spoken to many people at SNC/PASCO '07. It is incredible how the two factors: (1) Axiom's history (2) lack of seamless integration to working computational mathematicians's development environment and insistance on relic technology generate strong negative reactions. We can write diatribes and pamphlets against commmercial systems and library approches all we want, but Axiom has a hard convincing task before it, and proving passe techniques is not going to convince anyone when nobody is interested in or using passe techniques. Take a look at recent research papers and have a closer look at what people are using, are developing, what they think is the future trend of the field. I have heard the following (friendly) characterization of Axiom in the last couple of days: * If you're doing computer algebra for leaving, then: (i) Axiom lacks supports in many key areas; (ii) most of the Axiom algorithms are a couple of generations behind; * If you're a casual user, then using Axiom is like flying a helicoptere to buy milk at the store next door. With the inclusion of standard disclaimer about analogy, think about the above. -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer