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

[Bill Page]

On 9/4/07, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Bill Page wrote:
>
> | As an abstraction layer this makes very good sense. I believe that
> | Aldor also provides an interpreter for this layer: "-gloop", right?
> | But it is not clear to me how Axiom could make use of this.
>
> I believe the Aldor compiler can re-load FOAM files and work with
> them.  `All' OpenAxiom needs to do is to generate FOAMs for linking
> with the Aldor object files.
>

Having Spad generate FOAM code seems like a rather radical (and
interesting!) idea. How practical do you think it might be to make
such deep changes to Spad?

Regards,
Bill Page.