Ondrej Certik wrote: > seems to me that at that time, the methodology of programming was > quite different (for example the computer memory was a limiting factor > and the overhead of a language like python would be completely > devastating, none of which is a problem today for most of the > problems).
I think you will find in the case of Axiom that efficiency concerns are still very important - I refer you to the earlier discussion on notangle in lisp as an example. (note to self - iron out the last bugs in that...) For simple computer algebra problems computers may have made the question of resources less critical, but mathematical software in particular has a tendency to always push the bounds of what is possible. Of course the trade-off must be made between maintainability and efficiency, but I think Axiom as a project is most likely going to devote a lot of attention to being (or remaining) fast. Cheers, CY _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
