"M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
| If you're interested in a procedure-oriented language that delivers as | much bullet-proofing and compile time bug prevention as is "humanly | possible", have a look at Pascal's descendent, Ada. "Serious | anal-retentive" procedure oriented programmers use Ada. :) Indeed. | On the other hand, if you're looking to do symbolic math, is there any | reason not to use Lisp? Not a significant reason -- but Lisp's type system is not what I would consider "strong" :-) | There must be some reason nearly every | successful symbolic mathematics package was at least bootstrapped from | some Lisp variant! But in 2005, would you want to start with BOOT? [Bill, Tim, that was a joke :-)] -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
