Waldek Hebisch <hebi...@math.uni.wroc.pl> writes: | Bill Page wrote: | > | > To appreciate just how much effort Gaby has put into improving the | > readability of Boot code in OpenAxiom it is very instructive to look | > at JoinInner in both FriCAS and OpenAxiom. Just attempting to decode | > how FriCAS actually ends up producing the output you show nearly | > boggles my mind. But in OpenAxiom this same code is written as: | > | > PrinAncb := categoryPrincipals CatEval(bname,$e) | > | > If FriCAS does not soon adopt a similar approach I cannot imagine a good fu= | > ture. | > | | Well, I agree that OpenAxiom code _looks_ better. You say | that 'attempting to decode how FriCAS actually ends up | producing the output' boggles your mind. However, have you | tried to understand what OpenAxiom is doing? | | FYI FriCAS code was rewritten this summer and what it is | doing now is much simpler (and faster) than original version. | Actually original did crazy things and the only reason I | find for doing such things is that previous authors did | not fully understand what it is doing. AFAICS OpenAxiom | still contains at least part of original craziness.
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