[Axiom-developer] Re: Aldor translations

[Ralf Hemmecke]

> > Do you think it would be a bad idea to produce a symbolic library for
> > Axiom and make it available to C programmers by simply targetting C
> > as the Aldor output?
>
> No, if it is indeed as simple as that.  I didn't realize the algebra
> code in Axiom could be made to work without the interp behind it - I
> think that was the incorrect assumption I was making.

Well, it is like calling functions from GMP, only that the Axiom library 
would provide some symbolic algorithms.

However, we first have to translate the Axiom library to pure Aldor. 
Currently it relies on some features of Axiom that I haven't yet figured 
out.

> I'm not sure how easy it would be to get the same behavior of the code
> in two different language translations, but I guess that is up to the
> Aldor system.

He? Where do you see the problem? The Aldor compiler (ehm, actually 
FOAM) was designed to translate well to LISP and C. The compiler 
probably provides different runtime systems for LISP and C, but that is 
a problem of the compiler not of Aldor.

All the best
Ralf