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Re: Octave and Guile?
- To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
- Subject: Re: Octave and Guile?
- From: Jim Blandy <jimb at savonarola dot red-bean dot com>
- Date: 14 Sep 2000 11:30:59 -0500
- Cc: guile-user at gnu dot org, guile-devel at gnu dot org, rms at gnu dot org
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- References: <200009140528.AAA16344@tillamook-sharp.bogus.domain>
> Would there be any interest within the Guile community for some sort
> of merger of Octave and Guile?
I think this would be superb --- a great benefit to both tools.
It sounds to me like Guile has accumulated a good core of hackers
around itself --- I used to be worried about it, but now I'm much more
confident. The design gets cleaned up in little ways daily. If the
Octave/Guile merger is done well, that can only make things better.
> Would a merger of Octave and Guile be better?
>
> Perhaps merger is not the right word -- I'm not talking about merging
> numerical tools with the Guile core, but about replacing Octave's
> interpreter with Guile, and writing a translator for Octave's language
> into Guile. As I imagine it, this would also mean that (nearly) all
> of Octave's numerical capabilities would be available directly from
> Guile code too.
Yes, exactly.
> Octave would also likely receive a facelift to remove bad features
> (Matlab compatibility would not be a significant goal) and to focus
> the language on numerical capabilities only.
If Matlab still has a significant user base, I suspect you may want to
keep Matlab compatibility. Implementing Matlab as a Guile translator
seems like a natural solution.
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