[Aldor-l] Building Aldor

[Martin Rubey]

pip88nl at gmail.com writes:

> Many, but I can't really work under the current circumstances. How are
> Stephen's negiotiations coming along? How was the discussion with NAG?

I asked Stephen privately some time (a few months or so) ago, because I was
contemplating to teach Aldor to my students.

He answered that he was off to the airport, and that the answer would be too
long to explain right now.  So I asked in reply, whether this would imply that
Aldor would not become GPL compatible, and never got an answer.

I think that time would be better spent by gradually improving SPAD in the
Aldor direction.  I think that there are several small projects, that would
improve SPAD a lot, and do not seem out of reach.  Like: allowing arbitrary
conditional exports, allowing constructor definitions in the interpreter,
removing the difference between functions and constructors...

Meanwhile I'm teaching Sage, although I deeply regret this decision.

Martin