Re: [Axiom-developer] Embedding Axiom

2009-11-16 Thread Martin Baker
On Monday 16 November 2009 04:35:00 Tim Daly wrote: This is a request for design discussion for those who are interested. Tim, Can I ask a nieve question? If you were starting from scratch would you write Axiom in lisp? I've no special axe to grind and no special technical knowledge, I'm just

Re: [Axiom-developer] Embedding Axiom

2009-11-16 Thread Tim Daly
Martin, I re-read what I wrote and it is likely to not be very meaningful to you. Let me try to demonstrate the point. Suppose you wanted to implement an if-only statement in Scala. Is this possible? I don't know Scala so I can't say but I would guess not. In Python (which I do know) a

Re: [Axiom-developer] Embedding Axiom

2009-11-16 Thread C Y
On Sunday 15 November 2009 23:35:00 Tim Daly wrote: This is a request for design discussion for those who are interested. When it is done in this properly embedded fashion you should be able to (mapcar #'(lambda (f) (integrate f x)) '((sin x) (cos x) ... or use the Spad surface syntax to

[Axiom-developer] Re: Is your CAS no a weakling anymore?

2009-11-16 Thread TimDaly
On Nov 16, 6:50 pm, cliclic...@freenet.de wrote: TimDaly schrieb: On Oct 19, 5:16 pm, cliclic...@freenet.de wrote: Richard Fateman schrieb: cliclic...@freenet.de wrote: ... they claim to deliver the antiderivative of any elementary function if it can also be written

Re: [Axiom-developer] Embedding Axiom

2009-11-16 Thread Stephen Wilson
Hi Tim, On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 11:35:00PM -0500, Tim Daly wrote: This is a request for design discussion for those who are interested. Your message is very interesting. I have some plans on how to get from here to there in a slow, incremental fashion. These plans involve things like finding

Re: [Axiom-developer] Embedding Axiom

2009-11-16 Thread Tim Daly
Stephen Wilson wrote: Hi Tim, On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 11:35:00PM -0500, Tim Daly wrote: This is a request for design discussion for those who are interested. Your message is very interesting. I have some plans on how to get from here to there in a slow, incremental fashion.