On Feb 6, 2013, at 7:45 PM, "James K. Lowden" <jklow...@schemamania.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:23:15 +0000 > Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote: > >>> Is there an implementation of ideal to go with the manual? >> >> I heard second-hand that Christopher Van Wyk states Alcatel-Lucent own >> the copyright > > Confirmed. He told me so himself. > > Ideal would not be trivial to reimplement, either, not least because > it's not imperative but *declarative*. One doesn't direct the drawing > so much as supply equations to be solved simultaneously. As far as I > know, that's unique in the world of drawing programs. Maybe that's why > it still has commercial value in the day of Vizio. That's interesting. I wonder who's using it. I'm quite into Prolog. I wonder if it would be feasible to translate it to one of the other roff image formats (pic, I guess?) by directing clpqr solve the equations. — Daniel Lyons
