Re: [Axiom-developer] Aldor

2011-10-17 Thread daly
Well I spent the night thinking about it and, frankly, I'd say that Haskell has taken over the niche where Aldor could have been. Haskell has an interactive mode, a strong compiler, strong type checking, multi-core support, and a much larger user population. I don't see that Aldor offers any advant

Re: [Axiom-developer] Aldor

2011-10-17 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Martin Baker wrote: > On Sunday 16 Oct 2011 21:27:41 Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > [...] if only all this wasted effort could have been spent adding > Aldor-like features to Axiom. like per/rep, or import Foreign to OpenAxiom? ;-) _

Re: [Axiom-developer] Aldor

2011-10-17 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
Hi Martin, Better it is free and there is a little chance that some day someone picks it up) than non-free and unmaintained. I don't understand the technical issues and I agree that, in most cases, choice is a good thing. This is not about choice or fragmentation. Simply look at the error

Re: [Axiom-developer] Aldor

2011-10-17 Thread Martin Baker
On Sunday 16 Oct 2011 21:27:41 Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > Better it is free and there is a little chance that some day someone > picks it up) than non-free and unmaintained. I don't understand the technical issues and I agree that, in most cases, choice is a good thing. However, in the case of pan-a