Re: [Haskell-cafe] Numerical methods in Haskell

2006-02-20 Thread Bjorn Lisper
I finally got some time to answer Simon's posting: Simon P-J: | Between google searching and looking through the activity | report, I take it that no one has really developed serious | libraries for matrix manipulations, diff eqs, etc. | | Are there any practical reasons for this or is it just a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Numerical methods in Haskell

2006-02-20 Thread David Roundy
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 11:47:49AM +0100, Bjorn Lisper wrote: (a) It's hard to compete with existing libraries. The obvious thing is not to compete; instead, just call them. But somehow that doesn't seem to be as motivating. Perhaps some bindings exist though? Hard to compete, yes. But on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Numerical methods in Haskell

2006-02-20 Thread Bjorn Lisper
David Roundy: On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 11:47:49AM +0100, Bjorn Lisper wrote: (a) It's hard to compete with existing libraries. The obvious thing is not to compete; instead, just call them. But somehow that doesn't seem to be as motivating. Perhaps some bindings exist though? Hard to

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Numerical methods in Haskell

2006-02-10 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| Between google searching and looking through the activity | report, I take it that no one has really developed serious | libraries for matrix manipulations, diff eqs, etc. | | Are there any practical reasons for this or is it just a | matter of the haskell community being small and there not |

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Numerical methods in Haskell

2006-02-10 Thread Henning Thielemann
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: | Between google searching and looking through the activity | report, I take it that no one has really developed serious | libraries for matrix manipulations, diff eqs, etc. | | Are there any practical reasons for this or is it just a | matter

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Numerical methods in Haskell

2006-02-10 Thread Jeremy Shaw
Hello, If you are working on finance type stuff, you may be interested in my Decimal library: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/8734 I think my 'last even' rounding algorithm is broken because I misread the spec -- so be warned: hunk ./Decimal/Operations.hs 78 -|

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Numerical methods in Haskell

2006-02-09 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Creighton, Friday, February 10, 2006, 12:45:21 AM, you wrote: CH Between google searching and looking through the activity CH report, I take it that no one has really developed serious CH libraries for matrix manipulations, diff eqs, etc. it was a discussion and development in this