Wow, thanks for the pointer! This looks *very* promising. Two other efforts pointed to by their home page: http://research.sun.com/projects/plrg/ are IBM's X10 language: http://tinyurl.com/m9fma and Cray's Chapel: http://chapel.cs.washington.edu/
Chapel's site, in turn, references the ZPL language as part of its inspiration: http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/zpl/ -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net On Aug 4, 2006, at 11:57 AM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: > Owen Densmore wrote: >> I've been following math software for quite a while, mainly the free >> or open source packages. [..] >> A somewhat obscure site/package I follow is "J", an APL >> descendent which takes a symbolic-linguistic approach to math >> software. > For scientific programming in the large, this DARPA funded project at > Sun may be of interest: > > > http://www.experimentalstuff.com/sunr/projects/plrg/ > PLDITutorialSlides9Jun2006.pdf >> It is very, very terse and has some interesting parsing >> stunts that promote very concise composition of functions. > Compare to page 33 of above (the use of Unicode to show math notation) > > Marcus > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
