[Aldor-l] [Axiom-developer] Axiom for Aldor or Aldor for Axiom?

Stephen Watt watt at scl.csd.uwo.ca
Mon Sep 3 23:39:10 EDT 2007


On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 11:22:31PM -0400, Bill Page wrote:
> ... 
> Are you aware that currently Aldor works within Axiom by compiling to
> Lisp? How do you see FOAM being involved? Could you expand a little on
> this comment?

In case it is not clear:  FOAM is the compilation target for Aldor, and this 
is used to generate low-level Lisp.   

FOAM is designed to have only operations that are efficient both in Lisp 
and in a machine code-only environment.  (So, for example, there is no way 
to take an address of something.)

-- Stephen



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