[Axiom-developer] Re: Aldor translations

[Ralf Hemmecke]

> Axiom's core is currently based on Lisp, and I personally think this is
> a Good Thing.  If we output Aldor to something other than Lisp, we face
> the problem of communicating between the main Lisp environment and
> whatever happens to the non-Lisp code Aldor has exported.  To me, this
> seems to invite a world of compatibility issues, cross-platform
> problems, FFI issues, etc.

If Axiom is an will be based on LISP that is fine with me, but you 
should note that Aldor is an ordinary programming language. Why would 
you want to restrict its applicability. If someone just likes Aldor and 
wants to use it in his environment with maybe lots of C-libraries, what 
does that hurt Axiom?

What I want to say is that Aldor is Aldor and not LISP. Anything that 
binds Aldor more closely to Lisp as it is now, is bad. That doesn't, 
however, mean that Axiom should use something else than the LISP output 
of Aldor.

Do you think it would be a bad idea to produce a symbolic library for 
Axiom and make it available to C programmers by simply targetting C as 
the Aldor output?

Ralf