RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: libaxiom.a

2006-03-29 Thread Bill Page
On March 29, 2006 5:09 PM Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > > Maybe some people are very accustomed to SExpressions, I am > not. I am perfectly happy with Lists whose elements have a > particular type, for example, "List(Boolean)". Sexpressions > are already a bit more complicated. And I cannot belief that >

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: libaxiom.a

2006-03-29 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
On 03/24/2006 06:54 PM, Page, Bill wrote: Maybe S-expression can be defined in Aldor without imports from foreign lisp something like this (very roughly): [snip] But then you would just be re-inventing part of Lisp inside Aldor and there doesn't seem to be much point since you can get all this

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: libaxiom.a

2006-03-29 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
Hi Bill, ... I am proposing to remove NIL (or at least to hide it in some low level library), since in my eyes that sounds not very mathematical. If I want an empty list, it is much better to say "empty$List(...)" than "NIL$Lisp". Don't you agree? Sure. It's only a name. Maybe the notation:

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: libaxiom.a

2006-03-27 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
On 03/21/2006 04:55 PM, Page, Bill wrote: Tim, On Tuesday, March 21, 2006 11:00 AM you wrote: ... AXIOMsys has a large set of libraries. These libraries can't be compiled and executed standalone because they assume the underlying lisp (grep for $Lisp in the algebra sources). Very true. I

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: libaxiom.a

2006-03-27 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
On 03/24/2006 10:44 AM, Page, Bill wrote: On Wednesday, March 22, 2006 5:26 AM you wrote: Maybe I should be quiet, but I have a vision for Axiom and that simply says: Use higher level language constructs instead of lower level ones. It also says that people contributing to Axiom should write in

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: libaxiom.a

2006-03-25 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! "Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Camm, > > On Wednesday, March 22, 2006 3:44 PM you wrote: > > > > Bill Page writes: > > > ... It should be made easier to use Axiom > > > in this way, i.e. via an application programmer interface > > > (API). Right now it is possible to do t

RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: libaxiom.a

2006-03-24 Thread Page, Bill
On Friday, March 24, 2006 8:50 AM Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > > On 03/24/2006 10:44 AM, Page, Bill wrote: > > On Wednesday, March 22, 2006 5:26 AM you wrote: > > Maybe I should be quiet, but I have a vision for Axiom and > that simply says: Use higher level language constructs > instead of lower level

RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: libaxiom.a

2006-03-24 Thread Page, Bill
Ralf, On Wednesday, March 22, 2006 5:26 AM you wrote: > ... > I grep'ped for $Lisp. Well, that makes 2568 occurrences and > for my taste a very bad design. Wouldn't it be much better to > concentrate all the Lisp dependencies in just a few modules > and write the rest depending on that modules

RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: libaxiom.a

2006-03-23 Thread Page, Bill
Camm, On Wednesday, March 22, 2006 3:44 PM you wrote: > > Bill Page writes: > > ... It should be made easier to use Axiom > > in this way, i.e. via an application programmer interface > > (API). Right now it is possible to do this via socket calls. > > This is how Hyperdoc communicates with Axiom

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: libaxiom.a

2006-03-22 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! "Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ralf, > > On March 22, 2006 6:18 AM you wrote: > > I somehow think that providing (symbolic) libraries (besides > > the Axiom we have) is just another way to bring symbolic > > computation to a broader public. Is that such a bad idea? > > T

RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: libaxiom.a

2006-03-22 Thread Bill Page
Ralf, On March 22, 2006 6:18 AM you wrote: > > On 03/21/2006 04:55 PM, Page, Bill wrote: > [snip] > >> A more effective path would be to load and compile your > >> computation in lisp and then generate a standalone image to > >> do that computation, sort of a special version of AXIOMsys. > >> Thi

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: libaxiom.a

2006-03-22 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
Hi Tim, On 03/21/2006 04:55 PM, Page, Bill wrote: [snip] A more effective path would be to load and compile your computation in lisp and then generate a standalone image to do that computation, sort of a special version of AXIOMsys. This IS standalone, machine-language code with an embedded lisp

RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: libaxiom.a

2006-03-21 Thread Page, Bill
Tim, On Tuesday, March 21, 2006 12:21 PM you wrote: > > Greenspun's Tenth Rule: > > Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an > ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation > of half of Common Lisp. > > Here known as the motto of the narrow minded :-) No.

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: libaxiom.a

2006-03-21 Thread root
> > There have been numerous attempts by many people to create > > a standalone version of the AXIOMsys library. All have > > failed because the libraries assume lisp. I suppose you > > could figure out a way to link GUILE into the aldor > > libraries and succeed thru that path. > > I cannot see a

RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: libaxiom.a

2006-03-21 Thread Page, Bill
Tim, On Tuesday, March 21, 2006 11:00 AM you wrote: > ... > AXIOMsys has a large set of libraries. These libraries > can't be compiled and executed standalone because they > assume the underlying lisp (grep for $Lisp in the algebra > sources). > Very true. > There have been numerous attempts

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: libaxiom.a

2006-03-21 Thread root
> Why would someone want libaxiom.a in the first place? > > Well, that is needed to produce stand alone programs. And I was and I am > still not sure how library code is executed internally inside Axiom. Is > it always interpreted LISP or does AXIOMsys contain object code from the > ALGEBRA l

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: libaxiom.a

2006-03-21 Thread Vanuxem Grégory
Hi, Le mardi 21 mars 2006 à 12:53 +0100, Ralf Hemmecke a écrit : [...] > OK, I should have been more precise. By "Axiom kernel", of course, I > meant the current Algebra stuff (basically everything that goes into > libaxiom.al). I know that Axiom actually has NO kernel in the sense of > Maple

[Axiom-developer] Re: libaxiom.a

2006-03-21 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
Hi Bill, let me CC this to axiom-developer since there might be some more people who know how Axiom works internally. A sort summary. Last night I tried to compile libaxiom.al -> libaxiom.a. That did not work because the Aldor compiler told me. [...] ar x libaxiom.al basecliq.ao; /home/hemm