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

[David Hodge]

failing that there is always Skype

On 19/10/2012, at 6:44 PM, "A.J. Rossini" <blindglobe at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>> -tony
>>> 
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> -tony
> 
> blindglobe at gmail.com
> Muttenz, Switzerland.
> "Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we
> can easily roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05).
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