[Axiom-developer] Re: noweb "bug"

[root]

> Hmmm, I don't know whether it is worth spending many hours on the spad 
> language. You know, I am a bit against spad. Although quite similar, 
> SPAD is not the same as Aldor. And I would rather like to see SPAD 
> replaced by Aldor. Eliminate the SPAD language in favour of Aldor.

not to worry, spad isn't going away any time soon.

there are 1100 domains that would need rework which could be done
but no-one will do.

aldor isn't available.

spad and aldor are 99% compatible. aldor needs special constructs
because it runs standalone but it is conceptually the same.

aldor has an idea or two (like post-facto extensions) which are
not used or required in spad.

documenting how to program has SO little to do with the language
that we could do a s/spad/aldor/ (if i spoke sed) and get the same
results. we could call it SPALDOR :-)

t