Hi all, I recently saw discussions on the list regarding Matlab/Octave to Python translation. I brought this under John Eaton's attention (he is the original author of Octave) -- below is his response.
Regards Stéfan ----- Forwarded message from "John W. Eaton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- From: "John W. Eaton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 21-Jun-2006, Stefan van der Walt wrote: | I'd like to bring this thread under your attention, in case you want | to comment: | | http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/numpy-discussion/3174978 Would you please pass along the following comments? Translating the syntax might not be too hard, but to have a really effective tool, you have to get all the details of the Matlab/Octave function calls the same as well. So would you do that by linking to Octave's run-time libraries as well? That could pobably be made to work, but it would probably drag in a lot more code that some poeple would expect when they just want to translate and run a relatively small number of lines of Matlab code. Another semantic detail that would likely cause trouble is the (apparent) pass-by-value semantics of Matlab. How would you reconcile this with the mutable types of Python? Finally, I would encourage anyone who wants to work on a Matlab/Octave to Python translator using Octave's parser and run-time libraries to work on this in a way that can be integrated with Octave. Please consider discuss your ideas about this project on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. Thanks, jwe ----- End forwarded message ----- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/numpy-discussion
