"Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
| I think you are probably being too generous to the developers. I tend to give the original Axiom developers lot of credits :-) [ That is probably because I've tried many radical ideas, only to discover that there were reasons why they did certain things the way they did, even if I don't like it. ] | that any such consideration of optimization was ever applied. I expect | that the detailed coding in the Axiom interpreter and the coercions | supplied (or not) by the Axiom library are merely artifacts of the | constraints to the original Axiom development process. OpenAxiom already moved many of syntactic transformations and coercions to library. More reamin to do done; but that would rely on good, clear, abstract, object models of computations. -- Gaby ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ open-axiom-devel mailing list open-axiom-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-axiom-devel
