> Hello everybody,
Hey, Scott!
>
> This is my first posting to this list. I worked at IBM Research off and on
> for 9 years. I'm the primary author/designer of the interpreter and
> HyperDoc, and I wrote the first code generator and optimizer for Aldor
> (then called A#).
>
> I found Tim's po
Hello everybody,
This is my first posting to this list. I worked at IBM Research
off and on for 9 years. I'm the primary author/designer of the
interpreter and HyperDoc, and I wrote the first code generator and
optimizer for Aldor (then called A#).
I found Tim's posting very interesting, and I
Dear Tim, Bertfried, *
Bertfried Fauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Dear Tim,
>
> thank you for your long mail and the invitation to a coofee which
> I took while reading...
I'd like to second that, although I did not have coffee available. (should go
on Axiom's wishlist, I suppose)
>
--- Camm Maguire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Future-proofing", IMHO, is a continous process by any living
> project. It requires an active developer base intimately familiar
> with the system details which can only be acquired gradually through
> time. Developing this base is the key issue IMH
Greetings!
"Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tim,
>
> > POINT 1: Axiom needs to be future-proofed.
> >
> >Axiom needs to be torn down, re-architected, re-thought
> >and rewritten cleanly so it can be modularized, maintained,
> >and extended. Which implies a major rewrite, li
I've said it before, but...
This whole argument can be broken down into: who is coding, and what
does he want?
The answer is Tim, and he's going to get what he wants by default.
...Unless one of the rest of us is willing/able to pony up the level of
work that Tim is doing, then it makes sense fo
Dear Tim,
thank you for your long mail and the invitation to a coofee which
I took while reading...
Perhaps I may add, that as a _user_ of AXIOM, I am totally ignorant to its
internal struggles (bild process from scratch, historical accidents, etc),
but that I need to focus my resources.
Hello all,
ThD> (so the hero has time to sneak around behind me and kill me) :-)
My heart is set strongly against this ;)
Viva la Tim! ;-)
Vladimir Bondarenko
http://www.cybertester.com/
http://maple.bug-list.org/
http://www.CAS-testing.org/
___
Tim,
Thanks very much for the good humour and detailed reply.
On October 31, 2005 10:00 PM you wrote:
>
> Ah, language wars ... the only thing that out-emotions a
> license war
Damn! And I just finished saying I didn't want to start such
a war...
>
> I suppose, having been cast as the bad guy
