Entries in Changelog and git log should give around 20 names for contributors to FriCAS in the past 2 decades.
I will make credits into a separate file and make it up-to-date. - Qian On 5/18/26 6:01 PM, Tim Daly wrote: > I find it amusing that )credits only lists people as of October 2006. > Can I reasonably conclude that no-one has contributed any > credit-worthy contributions in the last 20 years? > > I created the credits list when I discovered that Christine Sundaresan, > who wrote the initial version of the Users Guide that became the backbone > of the Axiom book, was nowhere mentioned since she left the Scratchpad > project prior to publication. I found this professionally outrageous. > Since then > I have carefully tracked every contributor, great and small. > > Credit is the "coin of the realm" (nummus regni), the currency that for > any culture most holds value. Surely in both academic and open source, > the "currency" is "credit". > > Tim > > On Sunday, May 17, 2026 at 10:08:25 AM UTC-4 Waldek Hebisch wrote: > > On Sun, May 17, 2026 at 09:28:40PM +0800, Qian Yun wrote: > > ")credits" is broken after recent setq.lisp -> boot change. > > > > Variable name change (credits -> $credits) is not reflected in > > src/interp/i-syscmd.boot . > > > > Also it is a list of symbols not strings. > > > > Since we are on this subject, shall we convert it into a > > text file, just like what we did in ")copyright" and ")summary"? > > We could do this. For now I just commited obvious fix. > > -- > Waldek Hebisch > > -- > 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/242969e9-203a-445a-90f4-d4433ea78ad6n%40googlegroups.com <https:// > groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/242969e9-203a-445a-90f4- > d4433ea78ad6n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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/c6f9b6ea-7738-4567-a31d-f1648f4adcb2%40gmail.com.
