Hi all, I am exploring whether Racket could be a Lisp replacement for Python in scientific and engineering calculations. I currently use Python extensively in teaching chemical engineering courses (http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/pycse/) and in running molecular simulations (http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/dft-book/), but I am interested in transitioning these to a Lisp.
Why? Because I really like writing Lisp code, and some interesting things I can do with it. My current experience is all with emacs-lisp, which at the moment has no hope for replacing Python as it lacks a real ffi. Python works for scientific/engineering calculations because of numpy/scipy/matplotlib which provide the majority of our needs, and largely they just wrap C/Fortran numerical libraries. It is also distributed with batteries included that make it trivial to install these days. It seems like Racket can do this too. How feasible would it be to use Racket to solve the problems described here: http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/pycse/pycse.pdf I am trying to gauge how difficult it would be to start using Racket for these problems. Does anyone know of any similar kinds of projects as my Python project above in Racket? Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
