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Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> described the package as follows: License: gpl Other License: Package: SciDc System name: scidc Type: non-GNU Description: My project is a scientific RPN (Reversed Polish Notation) calculator written in C++. It will probably use the CLN library (http://www.ginac.de/CLN/) to achieve arbitrary precision in the computations. The user interface will be text-based (console application). It will also (in the future) allow the user to define and call macros. >From a look & feel as well as behaviour point of view, it will resemble closely to >the well-known GNU Dc, but my calculator will add scientific notation for numbers and >scientific calculator functions such as: * exponential and logarithmic functions * trigonometric functions * hyperbolic functions ... Note that, although my calculator will resemble to GNU Dc, it will be written from scratch. For now I haven\'t got (almost) any code to show, as I\'m currently more in the design step, than in the implementation one (moreover I\'m a C++ newbie, just finished to study Stroustrup! ;-)). Other Software Required: probably CLN library (GPL licence): see http://www.ginac.de/CLN/ Other Comments: I\'ve been suggested by Mathieu Roy that I could work on GNU Bc and extend its features. Yes, I know: reusing existing free software, avoiding reinventing what is already freely (as in freedom) available, ... These are perfectly reasonable ideas, I agree. Nevertheless, the genesis of my decision is: 1) I\'m studying C++ and my goal is to make practice with C++ software design and implementation 2) so I wanted to start an all-new 100% pure C++ project (practice in *both* design and implementation, no other languages besides C++) 3) I thought that, while I make practice, I could write something useful and release it under the GPL licence 4) I like GNU Dc very much, but it lacks scientific calculator functions 5) I couldn\'t find any free calculator that resembles Dc but has scientific functions 6) I don\'t have studied the C language, yet, so I couldn\'t add those features to Dc Putting together these considerations, I decided to start the SciDc project. _______________________________________________ Savannah-hackers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-hackers
