Re: [Axiom-developer] bootstrap Meta/Boot

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

address@hidden writes:

| > But does it really need so many sub-languages?
| 
| Well, that's a religious question.
| 
| Some on the wailing list feel that Meta and Boot should be recovered,
| made strongly typed, and closer to the algebra language.  On the plus
| side it will be claimed that these are "higher level" (or could be
| made into higher level since they are really just syntactic sugar).
| On the minus side Meta and Boot are languages with 3 people who read
| them and no-one who writes them.

That counts, obviously is inacurate; is the inaccuracy necessary to
make your point?

[...]

| I firmly believe that the internals should be in common lisp. It
| already is common lisp modulo some "syntactic sugar" (e.g. current
| boot). Over the years I've been slowly removing this sugar and using
| only common lisp.

We just has discussions and evidence posted on the list that we are
not using Common Lisp.

-- Gaby