Yes, Jim Griesmer made the first attempt using Fortran. Dick Jenks (and many others) made the second attempt. Fred Blair was one of the major Lisp influencers. In college (where I first started using Lisp as my primary language) I used Fred's Lisp code. The major intellectual influence was work by Barbara Liskov's CLU set of software ideas, notably the strong typing and data abstraction ideas.
My only problem with the Axiom entry is it ignores the hundreds of people who contributed, such as James Davenport. Look at any of the Axiom PDFs and you'll see a list. Credit is the coin of the intellectual realm. It needs to be carefully curated and shared. The fact that both the Axiom and the Fricas entries were written by Grok borders on magic. On Sun, Dec 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM Qian Yun <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tim, > > Do you think the edit made by Jartine in 2024/Jan/13 is accurate? > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FriCAS&diff=1195396684&oldid=1195233255 > > Especially the part: > > "Two computer algebra systems named Scratchpad were developed by IBM. > The first one was started in 1965 by James Griesmer at the request of > Ralph Gomory, and written in Fortran." > > - Best, > - Qian > > On 12/22/25 8:51 AM, Tim Daly wrote: > > Fricas: https://grokipedia.com/page/FriCAS > > > > Axiom: https://grokipedia.com/page/Axiom_(computer_algebra_system) > > > > -- > > 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] <mailto:fricas- > > [email protected]>. > > To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas- > > devel/d5e30ed2-5dff-46e6-b6c0-0b2a7be439c1n%40googlegroups.com <https:// > > groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/d5e30ed2-5dff-46e6- > > b6c0-0b2a7be439c1n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer > >. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/fricas-devel/YXvRQupnnq8/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/d361c853-1317-4514-a01b-05676191c8b0%40gmail.com > . > -- 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 view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/CAJn5L%3DLFt2HaG_5x9VQgK7VthCyH-hbY0vhk2EriVHExSVY1Vg%40mail.gmail.com.
