--- Ralf Hemmecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I might mention that the lisp output would be significantly easier > > to parse and maintain. > > Are you saying that aldor should not be translated to C or Fortran > or whatever other target there will be in the future?
A point which is probably orthogonal to this discussion but is something to consider is why we would want to target Aldor towards something other than lisp, in the first place. Axiom's core is currently based on Lisp, and I personally think this is a Good Thing. If we output Aldor to something other than Lisp, we face the problem of communicating between the main Lisp environment and whatever happens to the non-Lisp code Aldor has exported. To me, this seems to invite a world of compatibility issues, cross-platform problems, FFI issues, etc. Aren't we better off using other libraries which have been developed specifically to solve numerical problems quickly, and gradually working on optimizing our Lisp code? Am I missing something? Cheers, CY __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
