Re: [Axiom-developer] Makefile.solaris9 stanza

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Kai Kaminski <address@hidden> writes:

| Gabriel Dos Reis <address@hidden> writes:
| 
| > root <address@hidden> writes:
| >
| > | On September 14, 2006 9:42 PM you wrote:
| > | > > 
| > | > > > > > As far as I can see PLF is defined in Makefile.pamphlet 
| > | > > but never
| > | > > > > > used anywhere in the source.
| > | > > > > > 
| > | > > > > > I suggest we delete it before somebody tries to use it. We don't
| > | > > > > > need more flags and special cases in the source if we can avoid
| > | > > > > > it.
| > | > 
| > | > Damn. So I guess it's too late. This stuff is everywhere. ;)
| > | 
| > | Yeah, most of those conditionals are what make the C code hard to port.
| >
| > no harder than the lisp non-portable sutff all over the place in the
| > Axiom source code.  I don't think we have a perfect language match
| > here in terms of portability.  I've coded for longtime in C and C++; I
| > don't think this particular is stuff is handled the proper way.
| I'm not going to start another pro-Lisp discussion. But I'd like to
| point out that Axiom's Lisp code is not representative of (modern)
| Lisp code. Furthermore the conditionals aren't organized very well and
| most of them are superfluos anyway, because they are for Lisps that
| are long dead and forgotten.

Probably.


I followed this discussion

  http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2006/014309.html

with some interest.

-- Gaby