Re: Symbolic computations in D
What are semantic limitations you talking about? lack of pattern matching as example, which can tend to lots of ugly code
Re: Symbolic computations in D
On Monday, 30 October 2023 at 13:24:56 UTC, Sergey wrote: On Monday, 30 October 2023 at 13:13:47 UTC, jmh530 wrote: On Sunday, 29 October 2023 at 10:44:03 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote: Julia is more an alternative to R, Matlab, Python than C++. Not really. Many especially popular and widely used (NumPy, PyTorch, data.table) libraries for R and Python implemented with C/C++. Without using them, it is just impossible to get good performance. So there is "2 language" problem. Someone should create C++ engine + Python/R interface. Julia propose to solve this issue - since you are able to implement fast engine and interface both in Julia. There are aspects of Julia that are certainly nice. I'm just saying that most users of Julia would be more likely to use that instead R/Matlab/Python, rather than instead of C++. There are probably many areas where with R or Python, you would normally implement it with C or C++, whereas with Julia you could probably do just as well with raw Julia. However, that's not to say that Julia doesn't also rely on that same approach when it is beneficial. For instance, it can use standard BLAS/LAPACK libraries [1] for linear algebra that are written in C. There's nothing really wrong with that. They shouldn't re-write the wheel if there is already a highly performant solution. [1] https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/stdlib/LinearAlgebra/
Re: Symbolic computations in D
On Monday, 30 October 2023 at 13:13:47 UTC, jmh530 wrote: On Sunday, 29 October 2023 at 10:44:03 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote: Julia is more an alternative to R, Matlab, Python than C++. Not really. Many especially popular and widely used (NumPy, PyTorch, data.table) libraries for R and Python implemented with C/C++. Without using them, it is just impossible to get good performance. So there is "2 language" problem. Someone should create C++ engine + Python/R interface. Julia propose to solve this issue - since you are able to implement fast engine and interface both in Julia.
Re: Symbolic computations in D
On Sunday, 29 October 2023 at 10:44:03 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote: [snip] This is sad that people recommend OOP for this Julia doesn't have OOP and it took over, and that's what i'd recommend your students to check, C++ is a dead end, Julia it is for mathematical computing If D had tagged union and pattern matching, it would be a great candidate to succeed in that field Julia is more an alternative to R, Matlab, Python than C++.
Re: Symbolic computations in D
On Sunday, 29 October 2023 at 08:55:24 UTC, Dmitry Ponyatov wrote: Maybe someone played in this topic, and can give some advice: is D language with its OOP without multiple inheritance and maybe other semantic limitations able and good enough to be used with these books mechanics? The theme looks complex off the shelf, and I'm not sure to speak about D to this above student, especially I myself can't help him anyway not knowing the language in deep. Outside of the most basic functionality, this is only the type of thing you'd want to do if you're willing to put years into it. There are many such systems out there already. It looks like GiNaC (C++) might be their best choice. But note that even that library does not do the more advanced stuff. https://www.ginac.de/tutorial/ https://www.ginac.de/tutorial/#Disadvantages
Re: Symbolic computations in D
On Sunday, 29 October 2023 at 10:44:03 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote:
If D had tagged union and pattern matching, it would be a great
candidate to succeed in that field
Well, we sort of have it, just not as good as it can be.
https://dlang.org/phobos/std_sumtype.html
The default example though makes it look like it works only with
SumType, here is another example from godot-d where match
compares on types.
``` d
static Variant from(T : GodotType)(T t) {
import std.sumtype : match;
Variant ret;
t.match!(
(Variant.Type t) { ret = cast(int) t; },
(BuiltInClass c) { ret = c.name; },
(Ref!Script s) { ret = s; }
);
return ret;
}
```
Of course there is also third-party libraries that claims to be
"doing it right".
Re: Symbolic computations in D
On Sunday, 29 October 2023 at 08:55:24 UTC, Dmitry Ponyatov wrote: Yesterday some student asked me about ability to make some dumb symbolic computation in C++ the same like way as it looks in the MathCAD or Maxima CAS, but run it compiled on a robot platform in realtime. I have no idea about CAS design and internals, or any math at all, but today I found some book: - _Tan Kiat Shi, Willi-Hans Steeb and Yorick Hardy_ **SymbolicC++: An Introduction to Computer Algebra using Object-Oriented Programming and** - **Computer Algebra with SymbolicC++** with the same autors (looka like an alias book from another publisher) Maybe someone played in this topic, and can give some advice: is D language with its OOP without multiple inheritance and maybe other semantic limitations able and good enough to be used with these books mechanics? The theme looks complex off the shelf, and I'm not sure to speak about D to this above student, especially I myself can't help him anyway not knowing the language in deep. This is sad that people recommend OOP for this Julia doesn't have OOP and it took over, and that's what i'd recommend your students to check, C++ is a dead end, Julia it is for mathematical computing If D had tagged union and pattern matching, it would be a great candidate to succeed in that field
Re: Symbolic computations in D
On Sunday, 29 October 2023 at 08:55:24 UTC, Dmitry Ponyatov wrote: Maybe someone played in this topic, and can give some advice: is D language with its OOP without multiple inheritance and maybe other semantic limitations able and good enough to be used with these books mechanics? You can have multiple interfaces, and interfaces can have default implementation for its methods. What really prohibited is to have multiple base classes as this will over complicate data layout and the compiler without much benefit (if any at all). What are semantic limitations you talking about? D is much more expressive than C++, there is also CTFE and code generation with mixins. Mixins can do pretty much anything preprocessor can, except they can't inject self-invocable code, you always need an explicit "mixin(foo)" statement, and that's the only limitation compared to preprocessor. IIRC Vibe.d using them for template engine. Also D has raw strings, just like this https://github.com/buggins/dlangui/blob/master/examples/dmledit/src/dmledit.d#L73 Which again with mixins can be turned into DSL(domain specific language), with this you can write your own template that parses that string and for example builds a widget tree out of it, like this https://github.com/buggins/dlangui/blob/master/examples/helloworld/src/helloworld.d#L20
Symbolic computations in D
Yesterday some student asked me about ability to make some dumb symbolic computation in C++ the same like way as it looks in the MathCAD or Maxima CAS, but run it compiled on a robot platform in realtime. I have no idea about CAS design and internals, or any math at all, but today I found some book: - _Tan Kiat Shi, Willi-Hans Steeb and Yorick Hardy_ **SymbolicC++: An Introduction to Computer Algebra using Object-Oriented Programming and** - **Computer Algebra with SymbolicC++** with the same autors (looka like an alias book from another publisher) Maybe someone played in this topic, and can give some advice: is D language with its OOP without multiple inheritance and maybe other semantic limitations able and good enough to be used with these books mechanics? The theme looks complex off the shelf, and I'm not sure to speak about D to this above student, especially I myself can't help him anyway not knowing the language in deep.
