Grokipedia Fricas / Axiom entries

[Tim Daly]

Fricas: https://grokipedia.com/page/FriCAS

Axiom: https://grokipedia.com/page/Axiom_(computer_algebra_system)

[Qian Yun]

Hi Tim,

Do you think the edit made by Jartine in 2024/Jan/13 is accurate?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FriCAS&diff=1195396684&oldid=1195233255

Especially the part:

"Two computer algebra systems named Scratchpad were developed by IBM.
The first one was started in 1965 by James Griesmer at the request of
Ralph Gomory, and written in Fortran."

- Best,
- Qian

On 12/22/25 8:51 AM, Tim Daly wrote:
> Fricas: https://grokipedia.com/page/FriCAS
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> Axiom: https://grokipedia.com/page/Axiom_(computer_algebra_system)
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[Tim Daly]

Yes, Jim Griesmer made the first attempt using Fortran.

Dick Jenks (and many others) made the second attempt.

Fred Blair was one of the major Lisp influencers. In college

(where I first started using Lisp as my primary language)

I used Fred's Lisp code. The major intellectual influence

was work by Barbara Liskov's CLU set of software ideas,

notably the strong typing and data abstraction ideas.

My only problem with the Axiom entry is it ignores the hundreds

of people who contributed, such as James Davenport. Look at

any of the Axiom PDFs and you'll see a list. Credit is the coin of

the intellectual realm. It needs to be carefully curated and shared.

The fact that both the Axiom and the Fricas entries were written

by Grok borders on magic.

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