Sorry that I was so harsh. Your answer was mainly to C Y, to me only as a CC, but I kind of took it as directed to me. Email communication is tricky ;-)
Regards Juergen Weiss Juergen Weiss | Universitaet Mainz, Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung, [EMAIL PROTECTED]| 55099 Mainz, Tel: +49(6131)39-26361, FAX: +49(6131)39-26407 > -----Original Message----- > From: root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 6:44 PM > To: Weiss, Juergen > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Axiom-developer] axiom common lisp > > > Have done it 2 years ago. I won't do it again. > > > > Juergen Weiss > > sigh. ok. it appears you feel slighted because your ansi patches > didn't get added to the system 2 years ago. > > three years ago gcl was chosen (over ccl) because (a) i knew it worked > on akcl (gcl's parent code) and (b) i helped write akcl so i knew the > internals. (c) there were not many ansi common lisps and, in fact, i > didn't understand the distinction between cltl2 and ansi. > > two years ago the interpreter was not yet fully functional on gcl. in > fact, it was in the process of being converted to pamphlet files with > a makefile hierarchy. supporting 2 different lisps in the makefiles > was more work than i could do and a complete rewrite to ansi lisp (on > an ansi lisp i didn't understand) was too much work for me to do. the > point was to get ALL of axiom running. email discussions on the lisp > pointed out that gcl would eventually be ansi. uffi didn't exist and > i didn't understand the way to hook the C socket code into your work. > > axiom became fully functional (interp/algebra/hyperdoc/ graphics) as > of feb 2005. at which point i could begin to focus on other issues. > > rewriting the code from the current boot language to ansi common lisp > is in process and i'm testing the rewrite on every available ansi > common lisp platform during the rewrite. so ansi common lisp is > coming. not quickly but in well-tested increments. > > i know i ignored your ansi patches but they happened at a time when > they would have been vastly disruptive to getting the system running > again. > > i apologize that they were ignored. > > t > > > _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
