Re: [Axiom-developer] Boot

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

"Weiss, Juergen" <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

| About the boot ``language''. We had this discussion before: it really
| is not a new language at all, just another syntax for lisp. It has
| really
| neat features for destructuring and pattern matching. I would assume
| that 
| anyone who knows lisp get hold of the syntax in an hour or two. 

Indeed.  I don't think eliminating boot/shoe is a good idea.

Furtheremo, I would much prefer the completion of "shoe" and remove
the "old" boot.

I believe a rewrite into lisp a real backward step.

*If* a rwerite there should be, it should be a statically typed
language that has support fro pattern matching.  But, I don't see that
happening tomorrow.

-- Gaby