user language revisions, was: crazy run-time fluctuations (mostly super-slow) -- a bit more data
Subject: user language revisions, was: crazy run-time fluctuations (mostly super-slow) -- a bit more data
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:55:50 -0600
On 10/22/11, Steve Haflich <smh at franz.com> wrote:
> If I were to give advice to the Maxima community (of which I hardly consider
> myself a member) I would say that reconsidering the design of the
> language would be the most important aspect if one wanted to give Maxima
> a long lifetime.
>
> I would not expect the Maxima community to take my advice seriously, in
> fact, I do not consider it (given the circumstances on the ground) to be
> particularly wise advice because taking it would be too disruptive.
Well, have at it. We have kicked around various ideas for improving
the user language. My favorites at the moment are packages or
namespaces and lexical scope. Make whatever suggestions you want.
I am interested to hear about it.
If a user language runs on top of the same Lisp core, then I would
say that's not too disruptive.
best
Robert Dodier