Hello Mike, I trust all is well.
On October 31, 2005 4:01 PM you wrote: > ... > One wonders, however, just how complicated a build system > actually has to be particularly as Lisp is used elsewhere > in Axiom. > I agree that using *both* Lisp and BOOT is probably more complicated than it needs to be. But my solution to this would be precisely opposite the solution proposed by Tim. What I would greatly prefer is to replace the Lisp in Axiom with BOOT, where possible. I think the only place where Lisp is required is in the bootstrap for the BOOT compiler itself. And even there, BOOT could be weened from it's mother Lisp and live on it's own like ML, Aldor, and some other languages that started out in Lisp - but I am not really advocating that in the short term. If someone thinks Lisp is essential to Axiom then I would be glad to see some examples. In my writing I may appear to be overly opinionated, but really deep down my intention is to be open-minded. :) Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
