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Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: A modest proposal
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Stephen Wilson |
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Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: A modest proposal |
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29 Jun 2007 19:03:15 -0400 |
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"Bill Page" <address@hidden> writes:
> I very strongly disagree. I do not think the AXIOM project should be
> in the business of building literate programming tools. And I am
> rather surprised that Stephen should think so since he is also against
> the idea of building and maintaining intermediate tools like BOOT that
> are much more intimately related to AXIOM than literate programming
> tools.
Ok, no problem. Besides, Axiom is not in the business of doing
anything. It is the sum total of the efforts and skill of the
individual contributors. If I have a problem which I need a tool to
solve, and if no one else is already pursuing a solution, Ill create
it myself.
It just so happens that Boot doesn't solve anything for me. But thats
another, completely unrelated, issue.
> I think one of the great advantages of open source is the ability to
> build freely on the work of other open source projects. Tim had the
> right idea (but the wrong tool) when he decided to use noweb for
> literate programming in Axiom. Re-writing such things in Lisp is just
> a diversion away from the real point of the Axiom project (at least
> what the Axiom project should be).
No one, to my knowledge, is rewriting noweb or some equivalent in Lisp.
> I cannot imagine that spending time extending asdf to understand
> pamphlet format will be anything but a similar diversion. The result
> of all this effort is just to build a bigger ghetto in which Axiom
> will eventually die... :-(
Not sure what to say about that. There are technical reasons why asdf
is a reasonable direction to pursue. I have no idea what you mean by
`ghetto'.
Sincerely,
Steve
- Re: [Axiom-developer] A modest proposal, (continued)
- Re: [Axiom-developer] A modest proposal, Waldek Hebisch, 2007/06/28
- Re: [Axiom-developer] A modest proposal, Stephen Wilson, 2007/06/28
- Re: [Axiom-developer] A modest proposal, William Sit, 2007/06/28
- [Axiom-developer] A modest proposal, daly, 2007/06/28
- [Axiom-developer] Re: A modest proposal, William Sit, 2007/06/28
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: A modest proposal, Ralf Hemmecke, 2007/06/29
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: A modest proposal, Bill Page, 2007/06/29
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: A modest proposal, Stephen Wilson, 2007/06/29
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: A modest proposal, C Y, 2007/06/29
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: A modest proposal, Bill Page, 2007/06/29
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: A modest proposal,
Stephen Wilson <=
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: A modest proposal, C Y, 2007/06/29
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: A modest proposal, Stephen Wilson, 2007/06/29
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: A modest proposal, Bill Page, 2007/06/30
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: A modest proposal, Stephen Wilson, 2007/06/30
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: A modest proposal, Ralf Hemmecke, 2007/06/30
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: A modest proposal, Stephen Wilson, 2007/06/30
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: A modest proposal, Ralf Hemmecke, 2007/06/30
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: A modest proposal, Stephen Wilson, 2007/06/30
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: A modest proposal, C Y, 2007/06/30
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: A modest proposal, C Y, 2007/06/29