William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> writes: > > I think, very very well. It's amazing how much improvement is possible > > even if only very few people work with that code. Of course, you could > > also read that as "the code was very shitty, it's easy to improve" :-) > > Is the main improvement implementing the sort of stuff below, or something > else? Are you guys fixing bugs? How do you organize development right now > (an issue tracker website, wiki page, etc.?)
The things below are the user visible highlights. Many bugs were fixed, too, but most bugs we encounter are either trivial to fix or require better design. Concerning bugs, we still use IssueTracker for the numbering scheme and that the other descendents of Axiom can reuse our code. Apart from that, I implemented a proper unittesting package, and we are slowly switching to that. In particular, we do not depend on the precise output anymore (although we can test for proper output, too). > > I have been delayed by Aldor uncertainty, but it seems clear now that NAG > > and Stephen Watt are unwilling/unable to release it, so it's clear now what > > to work > > What does "it's clear now what to work on" mean? I.e., that you'll improve a > compiler that is not Aldor? Or another Aldor compiler? I won't, I'm a mathematician and know nothing about compilers. I do know a little about language, and that's why I like Aldor (the language) so much, even though it lacks some abilities. (However, since only few people ever used Aldor, it's sometimes just a matter to find out *how* to write something in Aldor, and not that it would be difficult per se. I guess that the term "pythonic" was an ingenious marketing idea.) My personal hope is that SPAD (which is *very* *very* close to Aldor) will become a better Aldor compiler one day. If anybody is interested in compilers, he should certainly join Waldek, I can assure her/him that there is interesting work to be done. Martin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
