[Axiom-developer] Re: Meta Prag-Parse

[Henry Baker]

Tim:

No problem with Meta.  As referenced in my paper, the original Meta
ideas came from papers published in the 1960's.

I'd be interested in learning more about Axiom.  How big is it?  What
machines does it run on?  Are you going to make it available on a
palm-top?  :-)

If you want my Meta stuff in any other formats, please let me know.

I also have optimized versions of Lisp code that didn't appear in
the paper, because the paper would have gotten too big.

Henry Baker, PhD (CS MIT'78)
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At 10:36 AM 6/20/03 -0400, Tim Daly wrote:
>Mr Baker,
>
>I'm Tim Daly, the lead developer of the open source computer algebra
>system Axiom. Axiom started in the 60s as an IBM Research effort, was
>later sold to NAG in England, and has been withdrawn as a commercial
>product. I'm converting it to open and free software. One of the seven
>parsers in Axiom is written in Meta and I'm documenting the system.
>
>You have written some documentation of Meta (Prag-Parse.[html,ps])
>which you distribute with the meta code. I'd like to package those
>files (or some derivative in our literate programming pamphlet format).
>The files would be distributed under a modified BSD license as part of
>the internal documentation of the Axiom source code. You would be given
>credit of authorship. I'd like your permission to do that.
>
>Tim Daly
>address@hidden
>address@hidden