Re: [Axiom-developer] Axiom, FriCAS, forks and teeth

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, C Y wrote:

| > (1)  As a law, useful software evolve; otherwise they die.
| 
| Certainly.  If actual new ideas appear, they should be incorporated.  I
| would hope that these would be in areas like new mathematics, new
| output formats, new graphics backends, etc - i.e. changes not involving
| the core of the system.

I believe that the core of the system would have to change, evolved,
rewritten, rethinked. 
The future -- at least the near future -- is in parallel/distributed
computations with multicores expected to grow exponentially.  We
will have to rethink most of the algorithms at the of the system.
Not just envelops like graphics backends.

Computational mathematic is not a static thing -- because it is
about computation and the technology evolves, quite rapidly.

-- Gaby