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Re: [Axiom-developer] bootstrap Meta/Boot
From: |
Gabriel Dos Reis |
Subject: |
Re: [Axiom-developer] bootstrap Meta/Boot |
Date: |
10 Aug 2007 08:37:08 -0500 |
address@hidden writes:
| > But does it really need so many sub-languages?
|
| Well, that's a religious question.
|
| Some on the wailing list feel that Meta and Boot should be recovered,
| made strongly typed, and closer to the algebra language. On the plus
| side it will be claimed that these are "higher level" (or could be
| made into higher level since they are really just syntactic sugar).
| On the minus side Meta and Boot are languages with 3 people who read
| them and no-one who writes them.
That counts, obviously is inacurate; is the inaccuracy necessary to
make your point?
[...]
| I firmly believe that the internals should be in common lisp. It
| already is common lisp modulo some "syntactic sugar" (e.g. current
| boot). Over the years I've been slowly removing this sugar and using
| only common lisp.
We just has discussions and evidence posted on the list that we are
not using Common Lisp.
-- Gaby
- Re: [Axiom-developer] bootstrap Meta/Boot, (continued)
[Axiom-developer] bootstrap Meta/Boot, daly, 2007/08/10
Re: [Axiom-developer] bootstrap Meta/Boot,
Gabriel Dos Reis <=
[Axiom-developer] bootstrap Meta/Boot, daly, 2007/08/10
[Axiom-developer] bootstrap Meta/Boot, daly, 2007/08/10
[Axiom-developer] bootstrap Meta/Boot, daly, 2007/08/10
[Axiom-developer] bootstrap Meta/Boot, daly, 2007/08/10
[Axiom-developer] bootstrap Meta/Boot, daly, 2007/08/10