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Date:Mon Jun 6 11:48:07 2001 
Subject:Re: Other gsl interfacing projects 
From:Stephen Isard 
Volume-ID:1010606.04 

Aaron Sloman See text for reply address wrote:

> It seems that both Octave and R meet parts of the objective I had in
> mind in proposing an interface between pop-11 and GSL. The main
> difference is that Pop-11 is a very rich AI language, which would enable
> the mathematical functionality easily to be combined with sophisticated
> AI mechanisms.

I've used Octave a bit, mostly for matrix computations.  It's very easy
to pick up.
The syntax, which is supposed to be compatible with matlab, is pretty
similar to vanilla pop11 (no lvars, closures, other fancy stuff).  I was
unhappy to find that function calls slowed it down considerably and
ended up writing long, non-modular stretches of code when I needed it to
run fast.  Maybe I missed some trick.

It uses gnuplot for graphics and I've heard more than one matlab user
sneer at it on that account.

I have no idea what would be involved in externally linking the guts of
it into poplog.

Steve