Re: Literate programming

2022-07-19 Thread Svjatoslav Agejenko
Hello ! AFAIK almost all top 15 billionaires of the world are described as philanthropists. I tried to contact their charities and suggest that certain carefully chosen open source software projects really deserve funding/donations given the value they  provide back to society. Nobody replied

Re: Literate programming

2022-07-19 Thread Svjatoslav Agejenko
Hello ! Sorry. This is greatly off-topic from Axiom, but your wild ideas got me triggered in a good sense. So I throw few my ideas, comments to the mix :) > My research is on self-reproducing systems (SRP). The idea is that > this leads to exponential growth. The goal is to terraform Mars.

Re: Literate programming

2022-07-19 Thread Tim Daly
Perhaps I wasn't clear. I've sent a note to the Schmidt Futures project requesting Axiom support. They have not yet replied. There is no agreement in place. Tim On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 4:35 PM Svjatoslav Agejenko < svjatos...@svjatoslav.eu> wrote: > > Hello ! > > > Financing isn't the real

Re: Literate programming

2022-07-19 Thread Svjatoslav Agejenko
Hello ! > Financing isn't the real issue. > > I've contacted many companies / universities to try to get support. > The latest effort is with the Schmidt Futures foundation. > https://www.schmidtfutures.com/ > > The Schmidt advantage is that it has a focus on open source software > and is

Re: Literate programming

2022-07-19 Thread Tim Daly
>> One early Axiom project question was how to keep Axiom >> alive after the project lead dies (aka me). Almost all projects >> die once the lead developer stops developing. Since Axiom >> is so complex it needs a lot of explanation to transfer the >> required knowledge. I really want it to

Re: Literate programming

2022-07-19 Thread Tim Daly
Clifford, My research is on self-reproducing systems (SRP). Specifically I am trying to build a robot / 3D printer combination that can (a) make two copies of itself and then (b) forage for materials that can be used by those copies to make two copies. The idea is that this leads to exponential

Re: Literate programming

2022-07-19 Thread Clifford Yapp
On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 12:31 AM Svjatoslav Agejenko < svjatos...@svjatoslav.eu> wrote: > Maybe that higher level language > can be compiled to forth or forth byte-code, or forth should be > used to implement lisp ? > Interesting you should mention that - I'm aware of a couple cases were people