John Gerard Malecki wrote:
>
> Richard Fateman wrote (2001-10-02T07:37:56-0700):
> >
> > I still find the idea of having one person write a program
> > and another one "document" it 20 or 30 years later to be
> > bizarre. But that is what we have as a task.
>
> Amusing and interesting comment. I wonder what an anthropologist or a
> historian would think of this as they "document" their objects of
> interest. :-)
>
> By the way, how is that "Macsyma's General Simplifier: Philosophy and
> Operation" document coming along?
>
> -cheers
I thought I posted this.. the paper can be read on-line (but
not really printed well ... I'm hoping that will be possible eventually)...
http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/pl_dochome?collection=Richard+Fateman&id=2