(I hope that it's appropriate to announce 3rd party plugins here, if not then I apologize.)
This is a fairly new Gnumeric plugin which lets you use Pure (an algebraic/functional programming language based on term rewriting, see http://pure-lang.googlecode.com/) to program Gnumeric functions. Works more or less like the existing Perl and Python plugins, but it offers some features which go well beyond these: - Pure has a built-in MATLAB/Octave-like matrix type which lets you deal with Gnumeric cell ranges in a convenient and efficient way. - Pure has lazy data structures, thus you can compute with stuff like the infinite list of all prime numbers. The plugin provides an operation to turn these into asynchronous data sources which are executed as background tasks. Of course, you can also use this facility for realtime data input from sensors, stock tickers etc. - Pure has an easy C interface, thus this plugin effectively enables you to use any C function in Gnumeric without having to write C code. - Pure is JIT-compiled to native code (using LLVM), thus scripts load slower but then execute much faster than equivalent interpreted Perl and Python code. - The plugin has support for rendering OpenGL scenes (both stills and animations) in Gnumeric frame widgets, via Pure's OpenGL interface (this requires GtkGLExt). More information, documentation, screenshots, sources etc. can be found here: http://code.google.com/p/pure-lang/wiki/Addons#gnumeric-pure For convenience, here's the direct download link: http://pure-lang.googlecode.com/files/gnumeric-pure-0.3.tar.gz (Note that in order to use this plugin, you also need to have Pure installed; detailed instructions can be found at the Pure website. If you run into problems, don't hesitate to contact me off-list or on the Pure mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pure-lang.) Enjoy. :) Albert -- Dr. Albert Gr"af Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany Email: dr.gr...@t-online.de, a...@muwiinfa.geschichte.uni-mainz.de WWW: http://www.musikinformatik.uni-mainz.de/ag _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list gnumeric-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
