RE: [Axiom-developer] Knuth's literate style

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--- Bill Page <address@hidden> wrote:

> On May 14, 2007 9:37 PM Gaby wrote:
> > ... 
> > Jacob Smith, a student of a colleague (Jaakko Järvi), took my
> > class on symbolic computations last fall. For his class project,
> > he choosed Algorithmic Differentiation in Axiom.  We were able
> > to implement both forward and backward modes in Axiom.  As a by
> > product, that led me to implement a small Axiom library for
> > representing Spad programs (both interpreted and compiled) as
> > typed abstract syntax tree -- which I'm now using in my "toy"
> > Spad compiler written in Spad.  That also pressed me to start
> > (earlier than planned) a formal definition of Spad (not easy).
> > The work will be presented at ISSAC'07. 
> > 
> 
> Excellent! I will be very interested in your publication. Also
> I am hoping that you and Jacob will be motivated to contribute
> this work to the Axiom Library and to discuss the work via the
> axiom-math email list and/or the Axiom wiki.

Indeed, very good news!  Darn it, now I'm going to have to figure out
some way to get up to ISSAC07...

Cheers,
CY


       
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