On 12-19-2009, at 3:50 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Tim Lahey <tim.la...@gmail.com> wrote: >> It appears that Scilab 5 (http://www.scilab.org/) >> is now GPL v2 compatible according to their web site >> and the FAQ for the license that they're using, >> >> http://www.cecill.info/faq.en.html#compatible > > Excellent. Is there _any_ valuable code/libraries/components/ideas in > Scilab that could be used in Sage? (I hope yes!) Or are they in > catchup mode with octave/gsl/numpy/scipy? (I hope not.) Is there > anything we can offer them...? >
Scilab is under pretty active development. One of the really nice things it has over most of the others is Scicos/Xcos which is a Simulink-like environment. Scilab also has a fair number of contributed toolboxes, http://www.scilab.org/contrib/index_contrib.php?page=download Note the various optimization libraries it interfaces with. It would be great if one could use Sage from Scilab and SciCos/Xcos. One example is the Maxima-based mexfunctions generator, http://www.scilab.org/contrib/index_contrib.php?page=displayContribution&fileID=1175 If one could have Sage as a symbolic toolbox and create symbolic components for Scicos/Xcos, that would provide a lot of flexibility. Especially since Scilab supports data collection. >> >> Having an interface to Scilab would certainly be >> nice. However, I don't think I'll have time to work >> on it. > > Ronan Paixao wrote a Sage/scilab interface over a year ago. > > sage: print scilab('2+2') > 4. Ooh. Nifty. Thanks, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
