Re: Catching up on internals

Did anyone get back to you on this?

Gene

On 9/5/2017 9:33 AM, Nicolas Doye wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> last time I looked at the internals (20 years ago) the parts I was interested in were 
> all written in BOOT. I wrote all my tentative code in BOOT and patched one function 
> (possibly coerceInteractive) to accept it. I have several hundred lines of BOOT code 
> that may be of interest to people.
> 
> I can’t remember exactly how one compiles BOOT and adds it into the interpreter’s 
> path Worse, I can’t remember BOOT’s syntax. I had a photocopy of the BOOT programming 
> guide, but, sadly, can’t find it.
> 
> Is there any online documentation on hacking the Axiom interpreter? Also, if anyone 
> has a scan of the BOOT document, please can you let me get hold of it somehow?
> 
> Quick Bio: I was a student of James Davenport’s in the late 90s working on coercion, 
> Axiom’s type system and Universal Algebra. Since then I’ve not been in academia.
> 
> 
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