[Axiom-developer] axiom common lisp

2005-11-16 Thread root
Bill, in "ANSI Common Lisp" by Paul Graham (ISBN0-13-370875-6) on pp304-309 Graham lists the changes from common lisp to ansi common lisp. axiom has example code that either violates the new standard (eg in-package) or duplicates the new standard (destructuring binds) with our own twists. Axiom is

[Axiom-developer] RE: Doyen

2005-11-16 Thread Tim Daly Jr.
> Really, I don't want to play with any of this. It shows. > I want to use > computer algebra for theoretical physics. I would prefer if > heavy lifting was done in a collaborative manner, shared among > several people. But instead, the suggestion is that I should > start by studying a textbook

RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: Doyen

2005-11-16 Thread Page, Bill
On Wednesday, November 16, 2005 3:56 PM Jens Axel Søgaard asked: > > Page, Bill wrote: > > > I guess that learning how to program well in lisp is quite a > > different thing than learning code re-use in general. In fact > > Peter Norvig has argued that Lisp is not particularly well > > suited to

[Axiom-developer] Re: Doyen

2005-11-16 Thread Jens Axel Søgaard
Page, Bill wrote: I guess that learning how to program well in lisp is quite a different thing than learning code re-use in general. In fact Peter Norvig has argued that Lisp is not particularly well suited to hetrogenuous projects that involve several different kinds of tools and programmers wi

[Axiom-developer] RE: Doyen

2005-11-16 Thread Page, Bill
On Wednesday, November 16, 2005 6:55 AM Tim Daly Jr. wrote: > ... > > Axiom has been ported by writing compatibility layers that emulate > the Lisp it was being ported from. At least for the code I > looked at, it's no more a Common Lisp program than it is a CLTL1 > (a previous semi-standard) p

[Axiom-developer] [#227 'random()$Integer' is a strange function]

2005-11-16 Thread wyscc
Changes http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/227RandomIntegerIsAStrangeFunction/diff -- >random() has meaning only if I specify a distribution. True (but that's a bit arrogant? :-). So the flaw is not in 'random()', but in the documentation because the distribution is not given. I never said that the

Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: [Aldor-l] Ann: ALLPROSE / Suggestions

2005-11-16 Thread root
i like the executive summary idea in pamphlet files. while i feel that complete documentation is important the real goal of pamphlet files is to write programs for the user rather than the machine. embedding source code leads to a daunting pile of documentation. stylistically an "executive summary

[Axiom-developer] RE: [Aldor-l] Ann: ALLPROSE / Suggestions

2005-11-16 Thread Page, Bill
On Wednesday, November 16, 2005 7:53 AM Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > > Martin Rubey wrote: > > > * it would be very useful - if not necessary - if you > > provided a one page summary on how to use ALLPROSE for > > the average A{ldor,xiom} programmer, separate from the > > complete 225 pages docu

[Axiom-developer] [#127 Building axiom from source fails on my Fedora Core 3] [#127 Building axiom from source fails on my Fedora Core 3]

2005-11-16 Thread root
Changes http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/127BuildingAxiomFromSourceFailsOnMyFedoraCore3/diff -- === FAQ 36: Axiom won't build on FC3 === You need to turn o

Recall: [Axiom-developer] doyen

2005-11-16 Thread Page, Bill
Page, Bill would like to recall the message, "[Axiom-developer] doyen". ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

RE: [Axiom-developer] doyen

2005-11-16 Thread Page, Bill
On Monday, November 14, 2005 8:45 AM Tim Daly wrote: > > > Subject: lisp webserver > > From: "Tim Daly Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Content-Type: text/plain > > Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 11:29:43 +0100 > > > > If you want to bolt Lisp onto a webserver, the sweet spot > > o

[Axiom-developer] [#127 Building axiom from source fails on my Fedora Core 3]

2005-11-16 Thread unknown
Changes http://www.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/127BuildingAxiomFromSourceFailsOnMyFedoraCore3/diff -- with September source I have the same problem (still on FC3) I try to use 'setarch i386 -X make' in vain! -- forwarded from http://www.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Doyen

2005-11-16 Thread Andrey G. Grozin
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Tim Daly Jr. wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 02:11 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is Maxima compiled on GCL as a Common Lisp application? I don't know. It is possible to compile Maxima on a Common Lisp, but I don't think that GCL is a complete Common Lisp implementation yet.

[Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom Foundation 1st Annual Report 2004/5

2005-11-16 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! Bob McElrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Egad has it been a year already? > > I would like to stay. > > I agree with Martin that we need to redouble our efforts to obtain > contributions in exchange for bounties, as there have been none so far. > > Posts in relevant newsgroups is

[Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom Foundation 1st Annual Report 2004/5

2005-11-16 Thread Martin Rubey
Bob McElrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Egad has it been a year already? > > I would like to stay. > > I agree with Martin that we need to redouble our efforts to obtain > contributions in exchange for bounties, as there have been none so far. > > Posts in relevant newsgroups is a good idea.

[Axiom-developer] Re: Doyen

2005-11-16 Thread Tim Daly Jr.
On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 02:11 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is Maxima compiled on GCL as a Common Lisp application? I don't know. It is possible to compile Maxima on a Common Lisp, but I don't think that GCL is a complete Common Lisp implementation yet. I think Raymond Toy was responsible for

[Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom Foundation 1st Annual Report 2004/5

2005-11-16 Thread Bob McElrath
Egad has it been a year already? I would like to stay. I agree with Martin that we need to redouble our efforts to obtain contributions in exchange for bounties, as there have been none so far. Posts in relevant newsgroups is a good idea. I can post to the feyncalc mailing list. Would that be

[Axiom-developer] Re: allprose missing file

2005-11-16 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
That file is not in the allprose distribution. You have to get it from http://www.hemmecke.de/aldor subpage ALLPROSE. There I list a few style files that are needed for ALLPROSE. Maybe I should make my distribution a bit bigger and pack up the other style files, into the distro. I have not don

[Axiom-developer] [Axiom-mail] Type of Expression Problem

2005-11-16 Thread Martin Rubey
Changes http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/AxiomMail/diff -- Hans Peter W�rmli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (1) -> e2:=binomial(n-1,k)/binomial(n,k) > > n - 1 > ( ) >k >(1) --- >n > ( ) >k >