"Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On August 22, 2006 9:18 PM Gaby wrote: | > | > Bill Page writes: | > | > [...] | > | > | Gaby would like to introduce his students to "symbolic | > | computation", but really Axiom (and Aldor) are not very | > | good at this -- by design. | > | > The appearance of AXIOM in the scientific market moves symbolic | > computations into a higher plane, where scientists can formulate | > their statements in their own language and receive computer | > assistance in their proofs. [...] AXIOM provides a powerful | > scientific environment for easy construction of mathematical | > tools and algorithms; it is a symbolic manipulation system, | > and a high performance numerical system, with full graphic | > capabilities. | > | > -- Gregory V. Chudnovsky in the Foreword of | > AXIOM, the Scientific Computation System | > | > | > I suspect the authors of the book forgot to tell him that the | > designers of AXIOM, by design, really did make it "not very good | > at symbolic computation". | > | | Chudnovsky was not making the distinction between "symbolic | computation" and "computer algebra" that Steven Watt is making | in the papers that I cited previously. Perhaps Gaby, you were | also was using "symbolic" in this more general sense?
Yes, and as a matter of fact, I'm deeply skeptical of your previous assertion. Furthermore, I'm unconvinced that Axiom will attract people if we insist on painting it in a corner. [...] | Gregory Chudnovsky was a contemporary of Richard Jenks, one of the | original developers of Axiom. I know. [...] | I wonder what Dr. Chudnovsky would write today if | asked to compare the Axiom open source project to other open | source projects and the commercial counterparts? you mean after Axiom has been deeply hibernating, and now has great difficulties taking again the leadership of principled CAS? Unless we have gotten a time-travel machine, I don't believe what is happening to Axiom today must be retroactively used to redesign its past foundation. -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
