Re: [Axiom-developer] Axiom Design musings

2015-01-28 Thread Raymond Rogers
On 01/28/2015 07:10 AM, d...@axiom-developer.org wrote: Axiom is at the beginning of another major transition. There have been several major transitions in Axiom which were the result of design choices. m) ( User Interface )

[Axiom-developer] Axiom Design musings

2015-01-28 Thread daly
Axiom is at the beginning of another major transition. There have been several major transitions in Axiom which were the result of design choices. There was a transition from the NAG version to the open source version. The NAG version required a running Axiom to build Axiom. The open source ve

Re: [Axiom-developer] Axiom Design Musings

2015-01-07 Thread Martin Baker
Tim, Thank you for the interesting post about Axiom design and use of lisp. I wondered if you ever considered Clojure? I have very little practical experience of Lisp, so please forgive my ignorance but, I get the impression that Clojure has better type checking? Also use of JVM means it has

[Axiom-developer] Axiom Design Musings

2015-01-06 Thread daly
A primary goal of the LP rewrite is to make it much easier to maintain and modify Axiom. In particular, the current LP focus is on the interpreter code. HISTORY Historically the interpreter was written by several people in a mixture of lisp styles. Some of the early work was done in Maclisp. An