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

[A.J. Rossini]

I guess I need to find an excuse to pass through singapore for business!

Best,
-tony

On 10/19/12, David Hodge <davidbhodge at gmail.com> wrote:
> Its a good idea - with a bit of refactoring I think changing the numerical
> layer should not be to hard.
>
> something to think about.
>
> Steve and I are meeting tomorrow, this is definitely on the list of things
> to discuss, apart from beer and saying
>
> :)
>
>
> On 19/10/2012, at 3:58 PM, "A.J. Rossini" <blindglobe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>
>>
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>> best,
>> -tony
>>
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-tony

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"Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we
can easily roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05).

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