(1) Is Boot a small extension of Common Lisp with some non-functional
features?
Boot is basically like common lisp just with another syntax.
Common Lisp is not functional. (setq a 5)
(2) Is this true that the Axiom mathematical library is compiled
(in FriCAS) first into the Boot code LibInBoot, and this LibInBoot
is not hidden, can be given and accessed by the user?
If I am not completely wrong, then spad is directly compiled to lisp and
then the underlying lisp system compiles this into its native object format.
(3) In what language the Boot interpreter it programmed? In C ?
In a mixture of Lisp and Boot.
For library writer only SPAD should be relevant. One can access boot and
Lisp functions, but using this in library code should only be done in
very restricted places where one cannot do it by means of already
existing library functionality. In fact, from some layer on the library
should no longer know that LISP exists.
It would be totally bad design if you see LISP in a package that
implements factorization of polynomials.
Ralf
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