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Re: [Axiom-developer] B#


From: Gabriel Dos Reis
Subject: Re: [Axiom-developer] B#
Date: 21 Nov 2005 02:28:01 +0100

"M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

| If you're interested in a procedure-oriented language that delivers as
| much bullet-proofing and compile time bug prevention as is "humanly
| possible", have a look at Pascal's descendent, Ada. "Serious
| anal-retentive" procedure oriented programmers use Ada. :)

Indeed.

| On the other hand, if you're looking to do symbolic math, is there any
| reason not to use Lisp?

Not a significant reason -- but Lisp's type system is not what I would
consider "strong" :-)

| There must be some reason nearly every
| successful symbolic mathematics package was at least bootstrapped from
| some Lisp variant!

But in 2005, would you want to start with BOOT? 
[Bill, Tim, that was a joke :-)]

-- Gaby




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