Just one more thing. It's still not really clear to me if I am better off using Java arrays (make-array ...) or clojure vectors especially when dealing with multidimensional arrays. I know that if use Java libraries such as Colt, I have no choice. But in general? What do you think?
On Oct 25, 5:33 am, Ahmed Fasih <wuzzyv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If all you need is a statistical or array-processing language like MATLAB, > > my frank view is you're best off staying in R, or Mathematica, or MATLAB, or > > Octave, or whatever... they're mature and great at what they do (Mathematica > > most of all ;-) ). The reason you might want to use Clojuratica or Incanter > > is if you're building applications that need Clojure's awesome features in, > > say, concurrency, *plus* array processing. > > Lisp/Clojure offers such a compelling advantage for software design of > complex applied math algorithms over some of the systems you have > named that I think it bowls over some long-suffering Matlab/R/Python > users, who are inspired work in Clojure in spite of incomplete (but > still surprisingly good) support for their specialized needs. > Hopefully Clojure's flexibility will soon allow it to become a matrix- > oriented language as well, if only to express linear-algebra-type > ideas (which are stored under the hood in whatever format or system > needed---Colt, CDF, Mathematica arrays even!). > > I wanted to let you know that probably for every person who asks about > Clojure scientific computing, there's a number of others who are just > trying to make it work for them! > > (By the way, Garth, great work on Clojuratica!) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
