Re: [Axiom-developer] Axiom for Aldor or Aldor for Axiom?

[Bill Page]

On 03 Sep 2007 21:43:53 -0500, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> ...
> It is OpenAxiom's intent to inter-operate with libraries written
> Aldor.  However, at this moment, I do not anticipate a complete
> rewrite of OpenAxiom's algebra in Aldor.  One thing at the time :-)
>

The last commercial version of Axiom was shipped with some Axiom
packages and domains already converted to Aldor. I think it would be
good to continue this conversion process in an incremental manner.

> I would like, first, to improve inter-operability with Aldor libraries
> from within Axiom (and vice versa)  through ISA like FOAM.
>

Sorry, what is "ISA"?

Are you aware that currently Aldor works within Axiom by compiling to
Lisp? How do you see FOAM being involved? Could you expand a little on
this comment?

Regards,
Bill Page.