Re: [Axiom-developer] Incorporating other GPL software into Axiom?

[Martin Rubey]

"Alasdair McAndrew" <address@hidden> writes:

> Now, I'm no expert in this, and I doubt I could program such things myself,
> but they do exist, either stand-alone (as in Zimmermann et al's GMP-ECM), or
> as part of GPL software such as LiDIA or Pari/GP.

A colleague of mine who is an expert in number theory tested various such
systems and found pari to be very well suited for general purpose tasks.

I think it would be a great shame and quite stupid not to use such well tested
and researched packages, especially given our very limited number.  In Aldor it
is fairly trivial to import fun from Foreign C, but I do not know how to do
this from Axiom.  I guess we should have a simple package that uses the
underlying lisp functionality and provides a interface for the average user.

> P.S. I've decided for the coming semester to trial Axiom with my cryptography
> students; it seems that Axiom is admirably suited for the number theory, and
> string and list handling which cryptography (at least as I teach it)
> requires.  So I'm having fun developing worksheets.

That's wonderful news.  Suggestions to make my axiom.el emacs mode more
accessible are very welcome.

Martin