On Wed, 30 May 2007, Bill Page wrote: | On May 30, 2007 1:11 PM Tim Daly wrote: | > ... | > While CCL gave portability it isn't a full common lisp. Indeed | > GCL is no longer a "full" common lisp. The direction is clearly | > ANSI in the long term. So I'd have to conclude that CCL is | > unlikely to be of importance in the future of Axiom. | > | | As Gaby has pointed out, one could take an entirely different | point of view. There is no reason to so strongly associated | Axiom with Lisp. In fact Axiom only uses a small part of the | Lisp runtime environment. So it might be possible to take CCL | as the basis for an Axiom-specific runtime optimized especially | to efficiently support Axiom. From this point of view ANSI | compatibility is completely irrelevant.
Indeed. I would strongly encourage Axiomatizers to apply the process of abstraction, dear to working mathematicians, to the Axiom system. I conjecture that only that way you can expect quite and full control over Axiom. -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
