I think the name is appropriate, given that it is a wrapper around a 
library of the same name. 
Splines.jl could be a meta-package of sort that unifies all spline-related 
stuff, but I think Kyle's concerns are spot on.

On Tuesday, October 28, 2014 5:00:54 PM UTC-4, Davide Lasagna wrote:
>
> Great work!
>
> Thanks for sharing.
>
> On Tuesday, October 28, 2014 3:32:40 AM UTC, Kyle Barbary wrote:
>>
>> This is an announcement of Dierckx.jl, a Julia wrapper for the dierckx 
>> Fortran library from netlib. This is the same library underlying the spline 
>> classes in scipy.interpolate.
>>
>> http://github.com/kbarbary/Dierckx.jl
>>
>> Note: Some of the functionality here overlaps with Grid.jl, Tim Holy's 
>> pure-Julia interpolation package. This package is intended to complement 
>> Grid.jl and to serve as a benchmark in cases of overlapping functionality. 
>> I hope it will be useful to people looking for a direct equivalent of 
>> scipy.interpolate or in any cases where spline interpolation is a major 
>> bottleneck.
>>
>> Contributions, or advice on the correct pronunciation of "Dierckx", 
>> gratefully accepted.
>>
>> - Kyle
>>
>

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