Oh dear. It looks like there was a typo in the example input. It should be (+ 1 1) or (+ 1.2 2.4) etc, not (1 + 1). Unfortunately infix syntax is not supported yet.
Bill. On 1 April 2012 18:10, leif <not.rea...@online.de> wrote: > On 1 Apr., 17:58, Fredrik Johansson <fredrik.johans...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> I'm proud to announce the initial release of FLINT 3.0. The FLINT 3 >> series is a complete rewrite of FLINT (Fast Library for Number Theory) >> from scratch, like FLINT 2.x was a complete rewrite of FLINT 1.x >> before it. >> >> FLINT 3.0 is available as an interactive interpreter >> at:http://www.flintlib.org/flint3/ >> >> The most significant change in FLINT 3 is that the implementation >> language has been changed from C to JavaScript. With modern >> JIT-compiling JavaScript engines, antiquated static languages such as >> C are no longer necessary for high performance computing. Switching to >> JavaScript allows us to make the transition to emerging computing >> platforms such as Windows 8, tablets, mobile phones, and the cloud. >> >> A second major change is that the only supported coefficient ring is >> double-precision floating-point numbers (with JavaScript semantics). >> Exact bigints and rationals are just too slow and complicated to be >> worth the trouble, and besides, you rarely need more than 16 digits of >> precision anyway. Most of the scientific computing world has already >> realised as much, and we anticipate that this bold move will give us a >> head start of 6-8 years over the rest of the computer algebra >> community. >> >> The FLINT 3.0 interpreter uses a Lisp-like syntax. As an example >> computation, type 25 or (1 + 1) followed by ENTER. > > There's still some work to be done to get it properly integrated into > William's Lisp port of Sage. > > But so far looks very promising. > > > -leif > >> Since this is a >> first release, some minor bugs are still present, and the code might >> not work in all web browsers. We hope to sort these issues out in the >> coming years using iterative development. >> >> --Fredrik, on behalf of the FLINT development team -- 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
