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> Subject: Haskell in Scientific Computing?
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> What happened to FSC (Functional Scientific Computing)
> of Chris Angus [ANGUS], which supposed to address some
> ineficiences of Haskell? Is it still alive? I do not know
> how related FSC supposes to be to Haskell. Is it a sort of
> a Haskell extension, or completely new language that uses
> Haskell as a development tool?
>
> Do you agree with Chris'es conclusions in his presentation
> in SciTools'96? Mainly that strictness is needed for speed
> [ANGUS1]?
FSC progressed, was defined and a (very rough) prototype compiler written in
Haskell. This was more or less done to explore the pertinent issues rather
than produce a piece of software for external consumption.
Development slowed over the last year as the funding for my PhD ended and I
took a job (Real Time C-hacking!), continuing my work on weekends and at
night.
At the minute my thesis has been viva-d and in going through the last
iteration
of typographical corrections. Once this is done it should be electronically
available via the Newcastle University CS website.
http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk
This contains the material presented at SciTools and much more including
benchmarks (against C and Haskell) of simple numerical subroutines such as
Cyclic reduction and normal CDF generation via quadrature. I plan to
graduate
in December and so envisage this resource becoming available at or around
then.
Chris
Chris Angus, Industrial Inspection International
Intelligent inspection systems for continuous sheet production
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>
> Two years have passed since SciTools'96. This is quite a
> long time -- considering how fast new ideas evolve nowadays.
> Any new development, any new conclusions, new directions
> that could be worthwhile to adapt for Haskell?
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