Waldek Hebisch <[email protected]> writes:

| Bill Page wrote:
| > 
| > To appreciate just how much effort Gaby has put into improving the
| > readability of Boot code in OpenAxiom it is very instructive to look
| > at JoinInner in both FriCAS and OpenAxiom. Just attempting to decode
| > how FriCAS actually ends up producing the output you show nearly
| > boggles my mind. But in OpenAxiom this same code is written as:
| > 
| >     PrinAncb := categoryPrincipals CatEval(bname,$e)
| > 
| > If FriCAS does not soon adopt a similar approach I cannot imagine a good fu=
| > ture.
| > 
|  
| Well, I agree that OpenAxiom code _looks_ better.  You say
| that 'attempting to decode how FriCAS actually ends up
| producing the output' boggles your mind.  However, have you
| tried to understand what OpenAxiom is doing?
| 
| FYI FriCAS code was rewritten this summer and what it is
| doing now is much simpler (and faster) than original version.
| Actually original did crazy things and the only reason I
| find for doing such things is that previous authors did
| not fully understand what it is doing.  AFAICS OpenAxiom
| still contains at least part of original craziness.

which parts of the OpenAxiom's rewrite are you objecting too?

-- Gaby

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