Re: [Axiom-developer] Good Tim

2005-11-08 Thread Kai Kaminski
"Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On November 7, 2005 10:10 AM Kai Kaminski wrote: > >> >> I don't feel like participating in the language arguments going >> on at the moment. Still I would like to voice my support for Tim's >> position in this matter. > > Thank you for participating anyw

Re: [Axiom-developer] Good Tim

2005-11-07 Thread Scott Morrison
Hello all, It's time for me to weigh in on some issues again. >>Converting Boot code to Lisp is trivial - just run the compiler. >>That is the first step that Tim has already used in his recent >>work to which I am objecting. I agree that this is not the best way to convert the system to Lisp. 

RE: [Axiom-developer] Good Tim

2005-11-07 Thread Bill Page
On November 7, 2005 10:10 AM Kai Kaminski wrote: > > I don't feel like participating in the language arguments going > on at the moment. Still I would like to voice my support for Tim's > position in this matter. Thank you for participating anyway. :) > > In particular, I agree with him that B

[Axiom-developer] Good Tim

2005-11-07 Thread Kai Kaminski
Hi everyone, I don't feel like participating in the language arguments going on at the moment. Still I would like to voice my support for Tim's position in this matter. In particular, I agree with him that BOOT is *not* higher-level than Lisp. There is not a single feature in Lisp that can't be e