> If all you need is a statistical or array-processing language like MATLAB, > my frank view is you're best off staying in R, or Mathematica, or MATLAB, or > Octave, or whatever... they're mature and great at what they do (Mathematica > most of all ;-) ). The reason you might want to use Clojuratica or Incanter > is if you're building applications that need Clojure's awesome features in, > say, concurrency, *plus* array processing.
Lisp/Clojure offers such a compelling advantage for software design of complex applied math algorithms over some of the systems you have named that I think it bowls over some long-suffering Matlab/R/Python users, who are inspired work in Clojure in spite of incomplete (but still surprisingly good) support for their specialized needs. Hopefully Clojure's flexibility will soon allow it to become a matrix- oriented language as well, if only to express linear-algebra-type ideas (which are stored under the hood in whatever format or system needed---Colt, CDF, Mathematica arrays even!). I wanted to let you know that probably for every person who asks about Clojure scientific computing, there's a number of others who are just trying to make it work for them! (By the way, Garth, great work on Clojuratica!) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
