Re: [Axiom-developer] autoconf revisited

2016-08-14 Thread Arthur Ralfs
On 08/08/2016 07:27 PM, Tim Daly wrote: In the reasonable future C will be gone. Work is underway to build hyperdoc and graphics in the browser (with minimal standards-based javascript/xhtml). Just a note but I don't think you need xhtml anymore since html 5 allows embedding mathml, canvas

[Axiom-developer] autoconf revisited

2016-08-08 Thread Tim Daly
John, ...[snip]... re: why doesn't Axiom use autoconf. Poul-Henning Kamp wrote an essay that contains the essence of the reply: A Generation Lost in the Bazaar http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257 "Even more maddening is that 31,085 of those lines are in a single unreadably ugly shel