Dear Ralf and Martin, I do not actually understand the efforts to improve the spad compiler, as I do not understand compilers at all. However, aldor seems to provide quite a bit of what you want (better error messages etc) and much more, as Ralf will advocate ;-)).
> I think that Haskell is quite a bit different from SPAD. Haskell is > functional, SPAD is not. Haskell has pattern matching SPAD has not. You > should maybe also look at DoCon http://www.haskell.org/docon/ > and look why (to my knowledge) it was/is not very much in use. Indeed Haskell is an entirely different world. However, I have to object that functional programming languages are not used. There are industrial applications (even own programming languages like `erlang' (Erikson language)). Here in my department and person seems to have haskell running and they use it (for nearly everything you can (and cannot) imagine) <grin> But I agree with Ralf, Haskell and spad are far too different. Perhaps all this `we-need-a-better-compiler-in-axiom' mails should be cc-ed to Steven Watt's, maybe just the desire to get his inbox free again may help to free aldor? If not the apparent need for aldor in axiom convinces him. Cheers BF. -- % PD Dr Bertfried Fauser % Research Fellow, School of Computer Science, Univ. of Birmingham % Honorary Associate, University of Tasmania % Privat Docent: University of Konstanz, Physics Dept <http://www.uni-konstanz.de> % contact |-> URL : http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~fauserb/ % Phone : +44-121-41-42795 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel?hl=en.
