RE: [Axiom-developer] ncloopProcess

[Weiss, Juergen]

Hi,

I think, before 1990 someone wrote a new scratchpad compiler in
lisp. It seems that it was not better than the old one. So
the code was abandoned and the A#/Aldor compiler was developed
around 1990. Maybe Tim knows more details. 

Regards

Juergen Weiss

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden 
> [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Gabriel Dos Reis
> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 12:23 PM
> To: Weiss, Juergen
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Axiom-developer] ncloopProcess
> 
> "Weiss, Juergen" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> | As far as I know, the nc functions are from the "New Compiler",
> | which does not exist anymore. It should have replaced the 
> old compiler,
> | which is the current SPAD compiler. This does not mean, that the
> | functions might be used somewhere :-(.
> | 
> | Regards 
> 
> Hi Juergen,
> 
>   You said "which does not exist anymore".  Did you mean it existed at
> some point, but was removed?  If yes, do you happen to remember what
> the reasons were?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- Gaby
>