[Axiom-math] Re: [Axiom-developer] APL, J, and Axiom documentation

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:43 AM, root <address@hidden> wrote:
>>Another thing that comes across fairly clearly in the talk is that Sun
>>is planning to use Fortress as a way to create a large scientific
>>computing community just like Java was used to create a large "web
>>commerce" community.  The marketing person in me can't help but think
>>that Axiom's algorithms would be very useful for helping to achieve
>>this goal.
>
> <rant>
>
> Oh, please, not ANOTHER attempt. I made myself rather unpopular at the
> CalculusFormalLibre conference over this point. A meeting was held to
> decide whether there should be an effort to create a new computer
> algebra system.

I participated in that conference.  I think people just disagreed and
did what they
thought they should do.  I don't think anyone had any specific feeling
with respect to you  because you were of different opinion.

-- Gaby