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Re: [Axiom-developer] literate programming, Claerbout's Insight and Doye
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Alfredo Portes |
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Re: [Axiom-developer] literate programming, Claerbout's Insight and Doyen |
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Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:36:01 -0400 |
Tim,
It is still the idea of the project ;-). I do not know if you ever
read this post by Emil Sit,
http://www.emilsit.net/blog/archives/tools-for-repeatable-research/ .
He actually mentions you and the Doyen idea for what he calls
repeatable research.
On 7/29/07, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
> Now that memory kicks in I recall that one original motivation
> for the Doyen project was to create particular "snapshots" for
> a particular piece of research that could always be reproduced.
>
> Jose has carefully documented the process of creating a Doyen
> CD so a paper could be published on the CD along with a complete
> Axiom system to sit behind the paper.
>
> The idea is that you can always reproduce and rerun the paper
> even if the world moves. So Axiom development could continue
> but you could still run last year's papers.
>
> Thus Martin could build and distribute an environment that has
> the necessary scripts to run his algebra. Or Ralf could distribute
> the combinat environment on a Doyen CD along with traditional
> publications.
Jose Alfredo