Re: [Axiom-developer] Call for help

2015-07-25 Thread Raymond Rogers
Okay, I looked at intel.pdf and brought to mind a crosscompiler I wrote way back when. Convincing a PDP-8 compiler to generate object code for something like a 6809. It's vague but I am convinced I was looking at object code and outputting differrent object code. Or some such but neverthel

Re: [Axiom-developer] Call for help

2015-07-25 Thread daly
>You will have to excuse me if I dozed off in the back seat during the >trip. Is this where we are? We're still lost but things have changed a bit since the 80s. >We have a programming language (say SPAD or lisp) and a program in >that language represented by a series of statements. >The intent

Re: [Axiom-developer] Call for help

2015-07-25 Thread Raymond Rogers
You will have to excuse me if I dozed off in the back seat during the trip. Is this where we are? We have a programming language (say SPAD or lisp) and a program in that language represented by a series of statements. The intent is to construct, in a literate manner, a series of statements in MP

[Axiom-developer] Call for help

2015-07-25 Thread daly
Axiom has moved into a new phase. The goal is to prove Axiom correct. There are several tools and several levels of proof. I've added the machinery to run proofs in COQ (for algebra) and ACL2 (for the interpreter and compiler). One of the first steps for the algebra proofs involves decorating the