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[Axiom-developer] learning Boot (was: learning Lisp)
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Page, Bill |
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[Axiom-developer] learning Boot (was: learning Lisp) |
Date: |
Wed, 7 Dec 2005 13:28:58 -0500 |
On Wednesday, December 07, 2005 5:14 AM I wrote:
> ...
> In order to illustrate "live" use of lisp on MathAction I think
> I need to invent a new environment like this:
>
> \begin{lisp}
> (defun foo (x y)
> (+ x y))
> \end{lisp}
>
> I now have an experimental implementation of the use of lisp on
> web pages on the Axiom Wiki. See:
>
> http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/SandBoxLispInAxiom
>
I have just finished adding the Boot language to MathAction.
You can now write for example:
\begin{boot}
foobar(x,y) == x + y
\end{boot}
And call it with:
\begin{axiom}
integer(foobar(2,3)$Lisp)
\end{axiom}
For another simple example see:
http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/SandBoxBootProgramming
Please try it and let me know what you think.
So now on MathAction we have the following 5 pseudo-environments
for Axiom:
\begin{axiom}
Axiom commands
\end{axiom}
\begin{aldor}
Aldor library code
\end{aldor}
\begin{spad}
Spad library code
\end{spad}
\begin{boot}
Boot functions
\end{boot}
\begin{lisp}
Lisp functions
\end{lisp}
I think this completes all of the web interfaces to Axiom
that are necessary for Axiom users {axiom}, Axiom library
programmers {spad, aldor} and Axiom developers {boot, lisp}.
With these tools it should be possible to do a lot of Axiom
debugging and development collaboratively over the web.
And we also have support for Reduce:
\begin{reduce}
Reduce commands
\end{reduce}
and for LaTeX with GraphViz for layout of diagrams:
\begin{latex}
GraphViz commands
\end{latex}
So where do we go from here?
Personally I think I now need to shift from web application
development to something more interesting! I plan to continue
to document Boot, as promised a few weeks ago and to complete
the documentation for MathAction itself, but besides that I
would really like to get back to using Axiom as a *user* again.
So that's my pledge for the coming new year. :)
Regards,
Bill Page.
- [Axiom-developer] learning Boot (was: learning Lisp),
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