Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-06 Thread Stefan Hornburg (Racke)
On 01/05/2011 02:51 PM, Gabor Szabo wrote: Let me just give a probably totally irrelevant comment here. I think most of the open source projects have been in use by many people in production environment before the project had a "production release". I guess there are still places that think Linux

Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-06 Thread Daniel Carrera
I would be very interested to see something that allowed Rakudo to talk to Fortran 95. I am going to use Fortran 95 for my thesis work, and maybe I could write a module to give Rakudo a basic array language. Nothing fancy like MATLAB, NumPy or PDL, but enough to try out algorithms and prototype id

Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-06 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Thu, 2011-06-01 at 14:53 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote: > I would be very interested to see something that allowed Rakudo to > talk to Fortran 95. > > I am going to use Fortran 95 for my thesis work, and maybe I could > write a module to give Rakudo a basic array language. Nothing fancy Is there

Things to Implement for Rakudo

2011-01-06 Thread Guy Hulbert
Changed the subject so people don't complain ;-) On Thu, 2011-06-01 at 09:32 -0500, Guy Hulbert wrote: > The algorithm was the ruelle-takens algorithm (ca 1979, iirc) to compute > the fractal dimension of a series. Google ( http://www.google.com/search?q=ruelle+takens+algorithm ) found: http://

Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-06 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Guy Hulbert wrote: > On Thu, 2011-06-01 at 14:53 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote: >> I would be very interested to see something that allowed Rakudo to >> talk to Fortran 95. >> >> I am going to use Fortran 95 for my thesis work, and maybe I could >> write a module to g

Re: Things to Implement for Rakudo

2011-01-06 Thread Daniel Carrera
Is it possible to explain briefly wht the Rulle-Takens algorithm is? That web page seems to mainly explain how some fractals like the Mandelbrot set and the Julia set are generated. Is there a specific, simple algorithm that we can try to implement in PDL, Perl 5 and Perl 6? On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 a

Re: Things to Implement for Rakudo

2011-01-06 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Thu, 2011-06-01 at 15:56 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Is it possible to explain briefly wht the Rulle-Takens algorithm is? > That web page seems to mainly explain how some fractals like the I can't remember exactly. I found the abstract for a conference paper, published in 2000, by the perso

Re: Things to Implement for Rakudo

2011-01-06 Thread Carl Mäsak
Guy (>): > I may have asked them why they did not map (A,C,G,T) -> (0,1,2,3) but > since then, I've learned more about what GC-content implies in terms of > chemistry -- it also seems to have evolutionary implications, about > which I know nothing. With this I can help at least, being schooled in

Re: Things to Implement for Rakudo

2011-01-06 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Thu, 2011-06-01 at 18:48 +0100, Carl Mäsak wrote: > People who don't care much about biochemistry, feel free to ignore > this post, which is admittedly not about Perl 6. > > DNA is ultimately to be turned into proteins, which make up our > bodies. I know all that ... I followed up privately t

Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-06 Thread Steffen Schwigon
Wendell Hatcher writes: > My point is make it a production release so peeps can push it to the > powers that be in the corporate world. Valid point. Will http://packages.debian.org/experimental/rakudo be continued? > This has been the longest production build in test in the history of > mankind

Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-06 Thread Steffen Schwigon
Daniel Carrera writes: > If they are critics to begin with, the size of the test suite will > not impress them. They could just as well conclude that Perl 6 must > have a million corner cases and gotchas that have to be tested. I > have never seen a language review that I thought was worth reading

Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-06 Thread Steffen Schwigon
"Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" writes: > Maybe we should focus on porting Perl 5 modules With the current size of CPAN this is IMHO not the way to go. A Perl5 embedding interface is more promising. Pugs had that in a not perfect but usable state. Not sure about Rakudo. An embedded Perl5 in Rakudo