>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Eder <aeder at arcor.de> writes:
Andreas> Hello Maxima list,
Andreas> I'm proud to announce to you that Robert Dodier has given me CVS commot
Andreas> privileges.
Great news!
Andreas> I am currently trying to clean up maxima code by removing stale
Andreas> conditionalizations (for pdp10 etc.), replacing maclisp type code by the
Andreas> equivalent common lisp idiom etc. Robert has already integrated a few
Andreas> cleaned up files and you can see more of that at
I have often thought doing that because always gave up because if it
ain't broke, don't fix it. :-) But maxima is in need of some house
cleaning.
Andreas> I will also try to further cut down the warning messages the compiler
Andreas> spits out (for clisp and sbcl, since these are the cl-systems that I
Andreas> currently use).
For this kind of work, I think it's also important to have gcl. I've
often made changes that work just beautifully with clisp and cmucl,
only to be blocked by gcl in some way or other.
Ray