[Antik-devel] [lisp-stat] ann: numerical-lisp on github.com

[A.J. Rossini]

Sounds good!

Am happy to help, my end goal is to play with a lispy statistically
clear DSL, not write numerics :-).

As long as we get solid numerics, I'm happy to use macros to play
around with the interfaces I want to see on the dsl, unless every
happens to like what I like.

Clone and pull/push requests seem to be best, making branches which
reflect author names and topics or both name-and-topic.

Shared access works as well, but not reason not to keep separate.

Best,-tony

On 10/19/12, Mirko Vukovic <mirko.vukovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> Based on a recent
> discussion<https://groups.google.com/d/topic/lisp-stat/sYBndICy_HA/discussion>on
> the Common Lisp Statistics group, I decided to start a github project
> numerical-lisp <https://github.com/mirkov/numerical-lisp>.
>
> The purpose of the project is to serve as an ordered (as much as possible)
> collection of thoughts on what would make a useful and powerful system for
> numerical programming, analysis and visualization based on common-lisp.  I
> suspect the discussion will be taking place on the common lisp statistics
> group, antik, and maybe others.  I don't think that we should form yet
> another discussion forum.  Coding would start in the next few months.
>
> The project would depend a great deal on Antik, gsll, cl-num-utils, and
> other numerical libraries.  The goal is not to start yet another
> incompatible numerical library.  Instead, the goal is to provide a flexible
>
> framework into which one can plug in existing libraries with relatively
> little modification.
>
> When it comes to coding, there will be relatively little intense numerical
> or graphics coding.  Instead, we should use as many of already existing
> resources and libraries already available, and allow enough flexibility so
> as not to be locked to a particular library.  We should also look at other
> systems (R, numpy, Matlab, mathematica, Macsyma), and incorporate their
> best features, albeit in a lispy way.  The project may boil down to
> software engineering, and good language design (maybe we should study
> Fortress for hints)
>
> Right now the project is quite empty, and I will add to it over the coming
> weeks.  Once I figure out how github operates for collaborative work, I
> would welcome contributions from others as well.
>
> I hope this to be a community effort.
>
> Mirko
>
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-tony

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