Hi, I think, before 1990 someone wrote a new scratchpad compiler in lisp. It seems that it was not better than the old one. So the code was abandoned and the A#/Aldor compiler was developed around 1990. Maybe Tim knows more details.
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gabriel Dos Reis > Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 12:23 PM > To: Weiss, Juergen > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Axiom-developer] ncloopProcess > > "Weiss, Juergen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | As far as I know, the nc functions are from the "New Compiler", > | which does not exist anymore. It should have replaced the > old compiler, > | which is the current SPAD compiler. This does not mean, that the > | functions might be used somewhere :-(. > | > | Regards > > Hi Juergen, > > You said "which does not exist anymore". Did you mean it existed at > some point, but was removed? If yes, do you happen to remember what > the reasons were? > > Thanks! > > -- Gaby > _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
