Re: [Axiom-developer] Embedding Axiom (Hickey and fold/unfold)

[Martin Baker]

On Friday 20 November 2009 23:17:25 Tim Daly wrote:
> There is an excellent talk by Rich Hickey about modelling time, 
> identity, values,
> perception, state, memory, etc.

Tim,

While I was watching this talk I was wondering about the difference between 
the mainstream computing issues verses mathematical computing issues.

I get the impression that the mainstream issue, from this talk, is about how 
to run multiple algorithms in parallel?

If we are trying to solve a set of equations, is there a natural parallelism ? 
For the reasons discussed in the talk, should a rule based method be preferred 
wherever possible and explicit coding of algorithms be discouraged?

Martin Baker