Bill Page wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
> > Bill Page wrote:
> >>
> >> Sometimes it is still surprising what was never documented in Axiom...
> >
> > You never met concept of "intentionaly undocumented"? =A0AFAICS
> > Boot was considered internal detail which users should not
> > know about.
> >
>
> Yes I suppose, although it is definitely against my personal
> philosophy ... :) It is irritating to have someone tell you that "this
> is something you should not know about". The distinction between
> users and developers in Axiom is not very clear but I am very aware of
> the negative attitude towards BOOT is some parts of the original Axiom
> project.
Well, FriCAS is open source and you are supposed to look at
anything. But in closed source setting documenting something
is an implicit promise of support/handholding. Not documenting
something means that support people instead of explaining
can tell you "this is unsupported", which probably save them
a lot of time (and company save money)...
> >> > Note that this is consistent with .input files, which
> >> > are also compiled by default.
> >> >
> >>
> >> In what sense are .input files compiled?
> >
> > .input files are first translated to Lisp (unless something
> > stops type inference) and then by default Lisp is compiled.
> >
>
> This seems strange to me since I usually think of .input files as
> "script" which is interpreted. I suppose that this use of the word
> "compiled" is a rather technical in relation to Lisp.
>
At least with sbcl the .input "script" gets compiled down to
machine code. I am not sure what the "rather technical" above
means: compilation is a technical detail, but when using sbcl
compilation has quite clear meaning.
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Waldek Hebisch
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