Although I am a beginner myself, I agree that documentation is vital, as well as classroom presence. I intend to trial Axiom in the current semester with a cryptography class, but I feel that at the moment Axiom is severely hampered by lacking a native windows version - with full documentation (HyperDoc or equivalent) and graphics - and the classy sort of interface common to Maple,Mathematica, and MuPAD. TeXmacs is only a stop-gap measure towards this end, I think. (I use Axiom in Emacs under linux, using Martin's axiom.el.)
I think that an introduction to Axiom in book form would be very welcome. It would have two consequences: it would advertise Axiom, and it would show Axiom to be serious and useful software, rather than just a hobby for a few developers. I have had a little experience in book writing: http://www.course.com/catalog/product.cfm?isbn=978-0-534-40011-8&CFID=33031138&CFTOKEN=54332257 and if a book project did get underway, I would be be happy to be involved. Would O'Reilly, or Springer, be interested, do you think? cheers, Alasdair On 7/2/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My emphasis was to have more *USERS* ... Axiom has an astonishing number of downloads, given its advertising budget. And it never ceases to amaze me how many people seem to know about it. I was recognized in a random bookstore in philadelphia by two japanese people who use Axiom. I was astonished, to say the least. I know of no way to measure the number of users. If we get code/documentation then I'd call them developers. However, good documentation is clearly vital. Mathematica has dozens of "for dummy"-level books available and many that have the classroom as a target. Documentation at all levels is the only way I believe that Axiom can live. Tim _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
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