Re: [Axiom-developer] A Canonical Axiom GUI

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

C Y <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

| It takes enough time and energy to evaluate a tool such as Axiom in a
| non-trivial way that the motivation to do so must be extreme.  (How
| many people here have seen a sub-optimal tool used simply because
| people already knew it and thought it would be faster to use that tool
| instead of learn one they knew might be better?)

Does Windows count as a tool? :-)

[...]

| I think it would be desirable for people who download and install
| Axiom, when they type "axiom" or click their Axiom icon, to have a GUI
| environment available that is similar in concept to the Maple and
| Mathematica environments, but perhaps with more or different
| functionality. 

Agreed.

-- Gaby