Alexandre, Fair enough, but that is *your* use. R has vast functionality, and replacing all of that would be a huge undertaking.
Bill ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Alexandre Bergel [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 12:16 AM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] [Moose-dev] SciSmalltalk For what I need R, Pharo can easily be better. Just an EyeSee pdf exporter will give me enough energy to build things on top of it. Alexandre Le 28 mars 2012 à 10:21, "Schwab,Wilhelm K" <[email protected]> a écrit : > It would be great to stab the R beast through the heart. But it will be > tough go given the richness of analyses that R can do. I have been tinkering > with PLplot for a while, but there are some graphs for R is simply more > capable, and the modeling and tests are undeniably powerful. > > Bill > > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] > [[email protected]] on behalf of Alexandre Bergel > [[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 8:44 AM > To: Moose-related development > Cc: Pharo Development > Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] [Moose-dev] SciSmalltalk > > Hi Serge! > > I welcome very much this initiative. > Something that I believe is important, is an pdf graph exporter (maybe based > on EyeSee) and the various test distribution (e.g., CHI). The fact that these > two are missing is exactly the reason why I use R and Numbers instead of > Pharo. > > I sincerely believe that Pharo can be an alternative to R and Maple. A bit > more is needed from our side however. > > Alexandre > > > On 27 Mar 2012, at 21:38, Serge Stinckwich wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> we already discuss about that in the moose and pharo mailing-list. >> Maybe this is too late, but please find a small proposal for gsoc 2012 below. >> >> ================================================================ >> >> Name: SciSmalltalk >> Level: Intermediate >> Possible mentor: Serge Stinckwich >> Possible second mentor: ? >> >> Description >> Smalltalk has at that time no equivalent to mathematical libraries >> like NumPy, SciPy (Python) or SciRuby (Ruby). >> The goal of the SciSmalltalk project is to develop an open-source >> library of mathematical for the Smalltalk programming language (MIT >> Licence). >> >> Technical Details >> The development of this project is to be done in Pharo Smalltalk, but >> the code should be portable to other Smalltalk flavors. >> Numerous Smalltalk projects provide already some basic functionalities >> (complex and quaternions extensions, random number generator, fuzzy >> algorithms, LAPACK linear algebra package, Didier Besset's numerical >> methods, ...). A first task will be to do an audit of all the existing >> projects that provide some mathematical stuff and build a Pharo >> Configuration to load them in a fresh Pharo Smalltalk image. After >> that, the student help by his/her mentors will decide what are the >> numeric algorithms to develop in priority. >> >> The student will need to know some basic numeric algorithms usually >> found in such libraries. >> Units tests should also be provided. >> >> Benefits to the Student >> The student will help the Smalltalk community in a very concrete way. >> The student will learn to design well-designed code with tests. >> >> Benefits to the Community >> Having a package providing more elaborate numeric libraries is really >> important to develop the use Smalltalk in new domains (robotics, high >> performance computing, computer vision, bio-computing, ...). The lack >> of numeric librairies hamper the use of the Smalltalk in a scientific >> context at the moment. An another goal of this project is to develop a >> community of people interested by these topic. >> >> Regards, >> -- >> Serge Stinckwich >> UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC), Hanoi, Vietnam >> Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk >> http://doesnotunderstand.org/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Moose-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev > > -- > _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: > Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu > ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. > > > > > > >
