I can tell you I would rather maintain the four lines of C++ without
the largely useless commentary.
That's a simple AXIOM program, but I'm sure one can easily translate it
into any programming language.
foo(a: Integer, b: Integer): Integer ==
if a > 0 then
if a > b then return foo(b,a)
return foo(b-a,a))
return b
Question: Does the program have a bug?
Ralf
Yes: there is an extra parenthesis in the fourth line... :)
Which, BTW, I discovered as soon as I pasted it in a file since
it was error-highlighted by the syntax highlighting in vim :))
A part from this, I think the example points out that perhaps we can make
a difference between source code of axiom (as a piece of software) and
implementation of (higher) mathematics: maybe the need for a
complete and thorough documentation can be considered of different
importance in the two cases.
Fabio
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