Re: [fricas-devel] New README

2021-04-18 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
> I wanted to avoid useless talk in the README. I am affraid that > "parametric dependent types" does not tell much for many our > potential readers. And some folks may understand it wrong. OK. Let's settle it and let it be "strongly typed". > Formally it can be argued that Spad type system is

Re: [fricas-devel] New README

2021-04-18 Thread Waldek Hebisch
On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 06:38:11PM +0200, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > >> In my version of the README, I use "statically typed" instead of > >> "strongly typed". > >> > >> I have a strong desire to put "static" here (in contrast to dynamic). > >> "strongly typed" doesn't seem to be sooo clear according

Re: [fricas-devel] New README

2021-04-18 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
> I'm advertising for 'strongly typed'. First of all, we claim it in > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FriCAS Then we should change the Wikipedia entry and replace it with the first of the following two. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_system#Static_type_checking

Re: [fricas-devel] New README

2021-04-18 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
>> In my version of the README, I use "statically typed" instead of >> "strongly typed". >> >> I have a strong desire to put "static" here (in contrast to dynamic). >> "strongly typed" doesn't seem to be sooo clear according to >> >>

Re: [fricas-devel] New README

2021-04-18 Thread Kurt Pagani
On 18.04.2021 17:34, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: >> http://www.math.uni.wroc.pl/~hebisch/fricas/README ... > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2351190/static-dynamic-vs-strong-weak > > If I look at what they write in the first reference than with our > "pretend" keyword, SPAD would be weakly

Re: [fricas-devel] New README

2021-04-18 Thread Waldek Hebisch
On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 05:34:36PM +0200, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > > http://www.math.uni.wroc.pl/~hebisch/fricas/README > > Thank you. > > I've slightly modified it and have temporarily put it to my wip/rstdoc > branch. > > https://github.com/hemmecke/fricas/tree/wip/rstdoc > > I have kept the

Re: [fricas-devel] New README

2021-04-18 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
> http://www.math.uni.wroc.pl/~hebisch/fricas/README Thank you. I've slightly modified it and have temporarily put it to my wip/rstdoc branch. https://github.com/hemmecke/fricas/tree/wip/rstdoc I have kept the link to INSTALL, but I hope that eventually INSTALL will only contain See

[fricas-devel] New README

2021-04-18 Thread Waldek Hebisch
I have put at: http://www.math.uni.wroc.pl/~hebisch/fricas/README candidate for new README. A slightly longer alternative candidate: http://www.math.uni.wroc.pl/~hebisch/fricas/README2 It is hopefully correct .rst, but before commiting it I keep name without extension. I tried to keep it