[Axiom-developer] Leo

2007-05-18 Thread daly
Well, I've looked at and tried Leo. I'm afraid that my opinions are rather worthless with respect to Leo for two reasons. First, I'm a "primitivist" (that is, someone who thinks that people should be able to send email using a bare CAT5 cable and a battery) so IDE-like tools are not considered u

[Axiom-developer] Linus on Git

2007-05-18 Thread daly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 Linux Torvalds talks about Git at Google. Tim ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

RE: [Axiom-developer] Literate documentation

2007-05-18 Thread Bill Page
Ralf, On May 18, 2007 7:47 PM you wrote: > ... > Oh, maybe I made a big mistake. By "pamphlet idea" I did *not* > refer to the production of a monolithic 1000 pages book, but > rather on the view that documentation is more important than > code. Ok. I understand that. > > I know that the "clon

Re: [Axiom-developer] boot notes

2007-05-18 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Waldek Hebisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | NAG cdrom contains file called boot.notes describing Shoe. Another | copy of this text was buried in the ccl sources and removed when ccl | was removed. This text is both about language and translator. The test | is shot and lacks many details, some

Re: [Axiom-developer] MathEdit?

2007-05-18 Thread C Y
Sorry about yesterday, these links work for me now. CY --- C Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone looked at this? > > MathEdit, A Browser-based Visual Mathematics Expression Editor > http://wme.cs.kent.edu/mathEdit_final.pdf > http://wme.cs.kent.edu/mathedit/ > > I wonder if this work wou

[Axiom-developer] boot notes

2007-05-18 Thread Waldek Hebisch
NAG cdrom contains file called boot.notes describing Shoe. Another copy of this text was buried in the ccl sources and removed when ccl was removed. This text is both about language and translator. The test is shot and lacks many details, some things there may be out of date, some explanations d

[Axiom-developer] Re: canvas tag

2007-05-18 Thread Dustin Long
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (note: copied to the axiom mailing list) Dustin, Dustin, Can you write into a tag? The Axiom project is planning to replace the help browser and graphics with a standard firefox front end. Axiom is written in common lisp. Hello Tim, At the moment, Kamen

RE: [Axiom-developer] Literate documentation

2007-05-18 Thread C Y
--- Bill Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But the point of view > Leo is that that the outline view is more powerful and more > flexible than that and so the woven result is of considerable > lesser importance. I think this might come down to how much "domain knowledge" is expected of the person

Re: [Axiom-developer] Literate documentation

2007-05-18 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
Hi Bill, In particular, if I read (4) I come to the conclusion that using LEO might rather be counterproductive to our pamphlet idea. As far as I recall, our current exchange about Leo originated in my reply to Tim's post concerning "Knuth's literate style": http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/h

RE: [Axiom-developer] Literate documentation

2007-05-18 Thread Bill Page
Ralf, On May 18, 2007 1:50 PM you wrote: > > I've just stumbled over the following section in LEO's User > Guide. Yes, I was going to specifically recommend that you read this section. > > How Leo Changes the Notion of Literate Programming > == >

Re: [Axiom-developer] Literate documentation

2007-05-18 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
I believe noweb is first of all an external format for Leo. To get a noweb file from Leo you use export. Leo does however implement some things that seem motivated by noweb. Hi Bill, I've just stumbled over the following section in LEO's User Guide. How Leo Changes the Notion of Literate Progr

Re: [Axiom-developer] sbcl port

2007-05-18 Thread C Y
--- Waldek Hebisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for info. Yes, as of 1.0.4 declarations in two-arg-gcd are > blatantly wrong. I must say that it is strange that the code works > at all (C compiler would immediatly punish them with non-working > code). I also looked at SBCL CVS repository

Re: [Axiom-developer] sbcl port

2007-05-18 Thread Waldek Hebisch
Gregory Vanuxem wrote: > Le lundi 14 mai 2007 ? 01:08 +0200, Waldek Hebisch a écrit > > [...] > > > 3) The reclos test do not finish, it looks that > > > > relativeApprox(squareDiff8,10**(-3))::Float > > > > line goes into infinite loop. > > Does > > )lis (gcd 8 most-negative-fixnum) > > re