Re: [Axiom-developer] B#

2005-11-19 Thread root
if you do )lisp (trace pf2sex) you can see the input translated to s-expressions which are essentially a GREAT-like data structure. It should be possible to write USER algebra domain that captures this, parses it, and allows you to manipulate it as a tree expression. t

RE: [Axiom-developer] B#

2005-11-19 Thread Bill Page
On November 19, 2005 2:05 AM Hans Peter Würmli wrote: > > In "How to Make AXIOM Into a Scratchpad" Jenks and Trager > describe "... a new user interface language ..." for Axiom, > which they called B# ("B natural") in the article. If it ever > had been implemented, it would offer a lot of the lan

RE: [Axiom-developer] axiom conference funding?

2005-11-19 Thread Bill Page
On November 19, 2005 12:25 PM Tim Daly (root) wrote: > > C. Y wrote: > > Premature question: Where would it be held? > > a more reasonable answer is another question: > who would be willing to host it. > > frankly i think it'd be a lot of fun to rent a beach house > somewhere and spend 3 days c

Re: [Axiom-developer] axiom conference funding?

2005-11-19 Thread Jay Belanger
C Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: --- root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Premature question: Where would it be held? Kansas. So we could decide if the changes to Axiom are the result of intelligent design or evolution :-) Hehehe :-). I wonder if they would punt the lot of us out of the state

Re: [Axiom-developer] axiom conference funding?

2005-11-19 Thread root
> Premature question: Where would it be held? a more reasonable answer is another question: who would be willing to host it. frankly i think it'd be a lot of fun to rent a beach house somewhere and spend 3 days code hacking/designing/lang-wars-ing on the front porch. morning presentations, after

RE: [Axiom-developer] axiom conference funding?

2005-11-19 Thread Bill Page
On November 19, 2005 11:54 AM Tim Daly (root) wrote: > > > Premature question: Where would it be held? > > Kansas. So we could decide if the changes to Axiom are the > result of intelligent design or evolution :-) > Oh, you're baaadd, Bad Tim! I but like it. :-)) But clearly evolution is part

Re: [Axiom-developer] axiom conference funding?

2005-11-19 Thread C Y
--- root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Premature question: Where would it be held? > > Kansas. So we could decide if the changes to Axiom are the result > of intelligent design or evolution :-) Hehehe :-). I wonder if they would punt the lot of us out of the state for refusing to acknowledge

Re: [Axiom-developer] axiom conference funding?

2005-11-19 Thread root
> Premature question: Where would it be held? Kansas. So we could decide if the changes to Axiom are the result of intelligent design or evolution :-) ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [Axiom-developer] axiom conference funding?

2005-11-19 Thread C Y
--- root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing we've done in the past, while Axiom was at IBM, > would be to apply to the National Science Foundation (NSF) > for conference funding. We would ask for a grant amount to > cover local costs and some limited travel for students and > speakers. > >

[Axiom-developer] axiom conference funding?

2005-11-19 Thread root
One thing we've done in the past, while Axiom was at IBM, would be to apply to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for conference funding. We would ask for a grant amount to cover local costs and some limited travel for students and speakers. Perhaps we could draft a grant proposal (with the gra

[Axiom-developer] Re: [clisp-list] infinite loop from Makefile

2005-11-19 Thread Stephen Compall
On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 01:00 -0500, root wrote: > I'm testing axiom under a variety of common lisps. > The Makefile I use does the following: > > @-echo (load "bookvol5.lisp") | clisp clisp takes Lisp or fasl files on the command-line. You can say "clisp bookvol5.lisp". For arbitrary forms, yo

RE: [Axiom-developer] infinite loop from Makefile

2005-11-19 Thread Weiss, Juergen
The following Makefile works for me (under FreeBSD) test: @- echo '(progn (print 5) (quit))' | clisp Regards Juergen Weiss Juergen Weiss | Universitaet Mainz, Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung, [EMAIL PROTECTED]| 55099 Mainz, Tel: +49(6131)39-26361, FAX: +49(6131)39-26407 > -O