Have you examined JAL? (the J Applications Libraries) https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/JAL/User_Guide Notably the math/ and stats/ libraries… https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/Libraries https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Interfaces/R
If so, what gap have you identified for an Interfaces/GSL package? I think you have to be Francophone to think of GSL as world-class (but statisticians please correct me). But don't let me or anyone else discourage you from making a start. It's just the sort of thing newcomers to a new language do well. And if you don't do it well, you'll attract more support than if you'd done it perfectly. I recall having to learn a smattering of Arabic for language-learning software I was helping to write. Straightaway I was yearning for a project to translate the best of English poetry into Arabic verse. Then I looked around at the Arabists in my dept spending their whole careers on Hafiz Ibrahim and quickly went off the idea. But I wish I'd stuck with it now. Never mind that the best I'd ever manage is to bring up the trailing edge. I'd have learned a lot of Arabic. On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 at 13:07, Emir U <e...@usgroupltd.uk> wrote: > Hi fellow statisticians and ML folk , I wondered if there may be appetite > to co-develop J bindings for GNU Scientific? Its a 1000 plus functions > which covers practically everything: distributions, stats, regression, > minimisation, non-linear fitting, LA, approximations, signal proc, lots > else. Full list of functions here: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/doc/html/index.html > > I'm a neophyte but I'm happy to pitch in if someone experienced would set > the template and gatekeep the project. I think it'd set J up a serious > language for statistics. It'd combine a world class library with > unparalleled conciseness and productivity. Is there any experienced > interest in this direction, or an alternative direction? > > Emir > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
