Jugen Weiss wrote: > > > A total rewrite in lisp with defstruct et al. of the whole system > > > is too ambitious for the number of people contributing. Besides, > > > for a total rewrite one should consider other alternatives as > > > well (aldor, ...). Bill Page wrote: > > I still wish for this but I am afraid that is controlled by > > people with a different agenda. > On Monday, October 02, 2006 10:51 AM Tim Daly wrote: > ... > controlled? open source is the ultimate "herd of cats". > work on anything you want, any time you want, any way you > want. everybody has the same source access.
Sorry, you miss understand. I *wish* for the release of Aldor as open source. It is about Aldor that I claim is "controlled by peole with a different agenda". >... > you'll discover that you can't rewrite portions of the > interpreter in either boot or python because they can't do > the source-to-source transformations like defmacro and > backquote. the interpreter lives to do source-to-source > transformations. Actually that's not true. Python is used in the Sage interpreter to do just that. > > and as for wishing... you don't need to wish. if you > rewrite the interpreter in boot and it is better than the > lisp version it will be adopted. > If Aldor would be released as open source, I think this might be worth the effort. But not using Boot. Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
