Hello Krystian, Thanks for the introduction and for some details of your GSoC proposal. I would be very pleased if you receive approval to proceed with the work you describe. However I would like to make some observations and to ask a few questions. Although it might sound otherwise, I do not intend this in any way as a criticism.
I understand of course that your proposal is motivated by your PhD research. It seems to me however that the other fork of Axiom - the OpenAxiom project has for sometime had as one of its primary goals improvements to the SPAD compiler and the SPAD language itself. Gaby has even mentioned a goal of replacing Lisp as the underlying runtime system that sounds very similar to your work. The FriCAS project on the other hand has (mostly) focused on improvements to the SPAD library and the addition of new mathematical algorithms. Now FriCAS is also the only fork of Axiom that already supports Aldor as an alternative compiler for the FriCAS library. So my first question is: How does your proposal differ from what has been proposed and done so far in OpenAxiom and what is already available in Aldor? My second question also applies to OpenAxiom and I do not think it has been fully addressed there: What is the underlying motivation for replacing Lisp with some other run time environment? It might be interesting to observe that in addition to the Lisp target, Aldor also has it's own native standalone run time environment. If your work is incorporated into FriCAS how would that impact the possible use of Aldor? Finally, are you thinking of any improvements to the SPAD language itself? Regards, Bill Page. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
