Re: ocaml users: see Mathematica for study
Hi,
A career imperitive here about ocaml langugae for audience of those
unfamiliar with Mathematica, Maple, Matlab. (sorry, I know, not a package
issue. But the packagers themselves are important too ;)
Mathematica is the unargued best mathematics language kernel and GUI front
end. It's also a *formidable* upwardly mobile linux programming language
and GUI (has two, infact).
www.wolfram.org
There's an ABUNDANCE of free physics, math, biology, etc. for Mathematica,
Maple, and Matlab.
You really should consider using a language compatible with one of the
above for a few IMPORTANT reasons.
Mathematica has more than you think (ie, 5 programming styles, large
library). It has a free Linux front end (display/print only). It's fully
documented online, including the 1500+ page Mathematica book. Yes I have
it and *love* it. There's also an active Mathematica news group. There's
pleanty of open sourced mathematica projects online to download
(universities have free projects too). And there are packages you can
install, like for laser research. It even supports OpenGL on Linux
desktop. You see NASA use it frequently.
ocaml, though featured, has terrible syntax in comparison: and lacks much
more than you think. It's not upwardly mobile for doing the kind of work
it proposes: symbolic programming, not at all. It's a great work indeed,
yes. But it is nothing more that stolen ideas from Mathematica and Maple
doon with poor documentation, poor syntax, and poor GUI. And since it
can't import any of the files (AutoCad, mathcad, ...). It's bunk.
Point being. Good free mathematics should aim to be compatible with the
software most [colleges] use for math: mathematica or maple.
These products, specificaly Mathematica, are *intensely* tested and stable
- practically garunteed to give the right answer. ocamls "stable" claims
pales in comparison.
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To be fair, their's also: maple. matlab. In that order. They aren't as
sophisticated as mathematica. They may be cheaper; if you call lack of
mathematics cheap ;)
http://www.maplesoft.com/ (close to mathematica in caps)
http://www.mathworks.com/ (not close. has a free 30 trial edition)
And of course Phiezer (drug company mispelled?) has bio software that
finds chemicals that simpley *won't* be sold ;) That's life.
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(ps, the "new" front-end is html and is definitely meant for use with
apache on unix)
P.S.
Much of "real world math" is patented. The above use patented things to
do the work. Point being. You should realize that just as in electronic
(patented LED blinkers) or software (MS windows): even if you write "new
math" and publish it... you can be sued for doing good ;)
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