Talk:Axiom (computer algebra system)

message: (please inseart headings for easier navigation! Said: Rursus (☻) 10:21, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You wrote, "Thus the fork information is available (see the bottom of the page) but it is not a mainline fact of the Axiom project that Axiom users care about." That statement is factually incorrect. For an example, I'm an Axiom user and I care about this information. As well, it's relevant to Axiom's history. I also notice that in the "Comparison of computer algebra systems" article, you're putting inappropriate information in the note box while deleting the previous information that was there. Such minutia as a video being available can be noted in the Axiom article. Furthermore, the manner in which the video information was written is by itself defective. Rather than tell people that a video is available and to do a search for it, the felicitous way to convey such information is to provide a link directly to the video, such as in an endnote. As well, you therein capitalize "Information Video," which isn't correct English orthography. For the foregoing reasons, I'm reverting the aforesaid changes by you.--74.4.222.208 (talk) 18:05, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

text: Daly, you were told above why your edits are inappropriate. Please refrain from redoing your aforesaid edits. Such actions by you are now delving into the territory of vandalism.--74.4.222.208 (talk) 19:43, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

text: Let it be noted here that Dely has ignored the foregoing and continues to delete the information discussed above.--74.4.222.208 (talk) 19:55, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

text: I Just wanted to add that open-axiom and fricas aren't Linux-only, they compile and run on FreeBSD just fine. -- Cghost (talk) 18:34, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: (random heading)

message: The Axiom project has been free and open for the since 2001.
I have been the lead developer on the project for the whole time.
The official Axiom website homepage is http://axiom.axiom-developer.org.
The code is hosted at http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/axiom
and at http://sourceforge.net/projects/axiom.
Tim Daly (Axiom Lead Developer)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.23.235.192 (talk) 08:09, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Axiom

message: I'm not sure whether this article should mention that axiom currently really consists of three projects (axiom, open-axiom and fricas), differing in goals and ways how to achieve them.  For the user, there is only little difference, since bug fixes are shared, and features of one implementation are ported to the other without much difficulty. Mantepse (talk) 07:59, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Forks

message: Somebody added a link to the Open-Axiom Homepage.  I think that this is misleading, therefore I reverted the change.  The wiki Axiom Homepage hosts information for the whole family of axiom implementations, and is a safe resource, I'd say. Mantepse (talk) 07:59, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: External Links

message: This page describes Axiom as free but if you follow the link to Aldor_programming_language that is described as "semi-free". I don't understand the details of the Aldor license but surely these two pages should agree? 
Galoisgroupie (talk) 15:43, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Free or semi-free? 

message: Scratchpad shouldn't redirect to this article, because:
# it's an obsolete name,
# there's a text editor named Scratchpad,
# there's a Scratchpad RAM article,
Unless there are serious objections, I'll instead make a disambiguation page at Scratchpad. Axiom is interesting enough, but its real name is Axiom. Said: Rursus (☻) 10:24, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: By the way, does "scratchpad" mean anything specific in English? (I'm a swede), then maybe perhaps possibly there should be an article on scratchpads? Said: Rursus (☻) 10:27, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Scratchpad redirect

message: I have no problem with changing the Scratchpad link to other uses.
Scratchpad, in American English, means a pad of papers used for writing notes.
Richard Jenks started the Scratchpad project at IBM in 1971.
It later became Scratchpad II. The commercial version became Axiom.
The name Scratchpad is only of historical interest. 
All project related work goes under the name "Axiom".
Daly (talk) 06:50, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Re: Scratchpad redirect

message: This article reports facts but does not explain e.g. why Axiom was "withdrawn from the market".  The reason why was because the Axiom project  was a noble effort but in the end a failure in design.  Incorrect results have been obtained with Axiom because one of its major design flaws is putting the burden of defining the so-called "domain of computation" almost entirely on the user, a human being who can make mistakes.   It was a stepping stone to other things like Aldor but it should be emphasized that "Axiom" turned out to be only a transitory period after all.TonyMath (talk) 09:22, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: On the subject of Aldor itself, the discussion page for its site shows that it will be labeled "discontinued" software.  The same should apply to Axiom if the software cannot be downloaded.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by TonyMath (talk • contribs) 22:43, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Axiom can be downloaded, just as Aldor can.--Jamie Michelle (talk) 03:01, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Why and wherefore?