On 10/04/17 01:21, 'John Clements' via Racket Users wrote:
I really enjoyed poking around in this a bit. One thing that I would really have appreciated, if it’s at all possible, would be a small motivating example; preferably in the readme of that repo. Is that a sensible request?
It's definitely a sensible request! Unfortunately I didn't yet succeed to come up with a small motivating example, but that question has been on my radar for a while.
The problem that Leibniz aims to solve is the management of complexity in computational science. Illustrating complexity in a small example is, unfortunately, rather difficult.
As with software in general, there are two aspects to managing complexity in computational science:
1) Incidental complexity, which makes software source code complex even when the science itself is simple. I have some hope to come up with a simple motivating example in this category.
2) Essential complexity, i.e. complex scientific models that can only be worked on with the help of computers. Finding a small example for that situation seems impossible by definition.
I'll certainly announce any progress on this on this list! - Konrad. -- 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.
