Re: [Axiom-developer] Project directions

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Bill Page wrote:

| On 28 Jul 2007 07:36:29 -0500, Gabriel Dos Reis <address@hidden> wrote:
| > C Y <address@hidden> writes:
| >
| > [...]
| >
| > | If I understand correctly, Aldor does not in fact require Lisp at all?
| >
| > Indeed, and that is a Good Thing (TM).
| >
| 
| But Aldor does have FOAM which in most respects is still a good subset
| of Lisp.

Yes, but the point is that, unlike Axiom, Aldor does not require a Lisp
compiler or runtime system.

| And for Axiom's sake Aldor is designed so that it's runtime
| environment can be easily re-targeted to Lisp. So it is not really
| accurate to say "does not require Lisp at all".

Lisp is optional, not a requirement as for Axiom.
If you don't have Lisp you can still write and run Aldor programs.
That is not the case for Axiom.

-- Gaby