"Ondrej Certik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > But the point of this exercise for me is still to present Spad | > for Python programmers - not really an argument for or against | > one or the other. Presenting it this way as a challenge seems | > like a way of motivating more interest in this subject. I think this | > is important for some of the same reasons that people currently | > doing computer algebra and symbolic computation in Python | > (e.g. SymPy and Sage) think it is important: because there are | > a *lot* of people who know or are learning to program in Python | > while there is a much much smaller number of people who have | > or are developing the skills to program in Axiom. If Axiom (and | > Aldor) has a future, I think we have to find some way to interest | > even a small share of that talent. | | I agree with this completely. And I think it is influencing to Aldor | users as well, to know, that Aldor is not the only possible way of | doing things and that many of the functionalities of Aldor they | thought are unique to it, can actually be done in for example Python | quite easily as well.
Very few poeple think that many functionalities in Aldor are unique to Aldor. [...] | Please, don't take my questions as a provocation, I am just interested | in pure discussion, I just want to know all reasons why you chose | Aldor, as I think it's not wise and you also think that Python is not | wise (otherwise you would already used it), thus I want to understand | and point out each other's arguments. Aldor is the continuation of the Scratchpad library extension language. Scratchpad is a project started beginning of seventies, long before Python was dreamt of. And Python was influced by Scratchpad. Anyway, I find the idea of luring Python developers into Axiom by showing them how you can write Spad/Aldor programs in Python and vice versa very, let say, curious. -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
