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Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de> writes: > chrislee@lavash.ius.cs.cmu.edu writes: > > I shortly thought about replacing the Matlab like language of Octave > with Guile, but nobody around me did even realize that Matlab's > language is crap so I lost interest. I've also been thinking about making a Guile <-> Octave interface. I haven't yet looked at Chris' package, but I'm sure that it could give a lot of inspiration on how to do this. > > 1) Is anyone interested in this package (if no one is interested, > > maybe I should not bother). > > Yes, yes, yes, yes! Yes, yes, yes, yes! from me too :) > I myself would really like to have a Matlab clone with Scheme as its > `scripting' language. Given that Octave already exists and is free > (and does complex numbers!), would it be possible to use the numerical > libraries of Octave instead of BLAS and LAPACK, etc? I vaguely > remeber that Octave too uses some FORTRAN code that is then wrapped > with C++ classes. I'm also very curious about what you say about this, Chris. Would it be simple to use the techniques in your package to make a language binding for Octave? I'm very busy right now, but in the beginning/middle of May I think I could reserve some time for working on such a thing. It would be very useful for my research to have a Guile binding for Octave. Maybe we could collaborate on this? Best regards, /mdj