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Glossary

• Aldor

  Aldor is an ordinary programming language that can and should be used for extending the [Axiom]? library.

• [Axiom]?

  [Axiom]? is a computer algebra system with a big knowledge of mathematics implemented in its library. An important feature of Axiom is that it uses types.

• FriCASWiki

  FriCASWiki is an online environment (you are currently reading one page of it) that allows people interested in [Axiom]? to openly collaborate and improve [Axiom]?'s code and documentation. Everyone is invited to improve [Axiom]?, just BeBold.

• IssueTracker

  IssueTracker is [Axiom]?'s bug tracking facility.

• LatexWiki

  LatexWiki is a patch to the ZWiki package that allows rendering of in-line LaTeX on an FriCASWiki page.

• MathAction

  MathAction is a software that is built on LatexWiki. It allows to call [Axiom]? and [Reduce]? from within a [Wiki]? page.

• [SPAD]?

  The language used in Axiom is called Spad (a contraction of ScratchPad). [SPAD]? is a predecessor of Aldor. For adding new library features Aldor is now preferred.

• [Wiki]?

  A Wiki is a way of collaboration where you create web documents using a very simple syntax, and documents are editable by anyone. The wiki.axiom-developer.org uses the ZWiki software as its driving backend.

• ZWiki

  Zwiki is the software which drives this wiki site.