Quan's real name, which I no longer remember, is listed in the Axiom credit list which is in every published PDF.
I co-authored a book on computer vision for the IBM robot. When I left the robot project my name was removed from the book. The research I did and the chapters I wrote seemed not to matter. Why people feel the need to play games with "credit" puzzles me. On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 10:05 AM Grégory Vanuxem <[email protected]> wrote: > I saw that when I manually merged the commit (which was fixed since - the > symbols and name). I even looked for Qian, and not found him. > > BTW, I think that this is improvable but that likely requires substantial > work I think (?). > > Greg > > Le lun. 18 mai 2026, 12:01, Tim Daly <[email protected]> a écrit : > >> 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]. >> 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 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/HhFU2U_KKrE/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/CAHnU2dYTs16r0MzZ2iqW5ny8xRmBfqYWBKb9xqsH1mGQnsKP-g%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/CAHnU2dYTs16r0MzZ2iqW5ny8xRmBfqYWBKb9xqsH1mGQnsKP-g%40mail.gmail.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/CAJn5L%3DKOKRQ5itnv%2Bt71MrkNV-x6iuOy6iGRMQ_9HReQOTZfDQ%40mail.gmail.com.
