Re: [Axiom-developer] Boot

[root]

> It sounds almost like we should take a "vote" :-), although
> open source is not organized on democratic principles as such.
> It would be really nice if we could get consensus to proceed
> in this manner.

vote? vote == running code (to use boot syntax).
extract a clean boot language and document it.
there is no need for consensus in order to do work.

the concern is that your work will end up being wasted and thrown away.

but that's in the nature of this business. consider that within the
next 6 months the whole makefile structure will likely be completely
rewritten, trashing months of my work. that's not waste, that's progress.
and i'm likely to be one of key "agents of dsetruction" since i'm going
to end up ripping out my code and replacing it with gaby's once it works
everywhere. when gaby has running code he doesn't need a vote or consensus.

extracting boot, cleaning it up, and documenting it means that someone
will have documented a portion of the spad language and a portion of
the spad compiler. this would give us a handle on how to change the
spad language. so even if the interpreter never uses boot the whole
system is better defined and easier to change.

open source is a meritocracy, not a democracy. 
everybody has all the code.
may the best work win.

t