Re: [racket-users] Using the draw and plot packages with other languages

2015-08-17 Thread Marduk Bolaños
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Re: [racket-users] Using the draw and plot packages with other languages

2015-08-17 Thread WarGrey Gyoudmon Ju
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 6:40 AM, Marduk Bolaños wrote: > Coming back to my original question. What is your advice for using > Racket's draw and plot in other programs? > Hi, Marduk. There was a discussion that is close to your purpose. http://lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive//2014-January/061

Re: [racket-users] Using the draw and plot packages with other languages

2015-08-15 Thread Marduk Bolaños
Dear Neil, Thank you very much for your thoughtful reply and your understanding. > There are lots of ways to "interoperate" between languages, but once > you get into high-level languages the C calling-convention native code > way you might be thinking of doesn't necessarily work well. I am real

Re: [racket-users] Using the draw and plot packages with other languages

2015-08-15 Thread Marduk Bolaños
Dear Matthias, Thank you for your thoughtful response. > we are not used to the words "profit" and "maximize profit" on this > mailing list. Most people are used to linking profit with money but it has a much broader meaning. > Sadly, I think that this is neither technically easy nor socially >

Re: [racket-users] Using the draw and plot packages with other languages

2015-08-15 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Marduk Bolaños wrote on 08/14/2015 10:06 PM: Since Racket is a compiled language, I thought that perhaps it would be possible to compile these packages as shared libraries and then (ideally automatically) generate bindings for the desired language. I think I understand your message, and am symp

Re: [racket-users] Using the draw and plot packages with other languages

2015-08-15 Thread Matthias Felleisen
Hi -- nobody here is accusing you of anything. It's just that we are not used to the words "profit" and "maximize profit" on this mailing list. In general I agree with you that it would be wonderful if we could easily integrate tools across programming languages. Sadly, I think that this is

Re: [racket-users] Using the draw and plot packages with other languages

2015-08-15 Thread Marduk Bolaños
> When you say "maximize the profit," whose profit are you referring to? What I mean is that software that could be useful in several contexts, like a plotting library, should enable the possibility of pluging it in to a larger software project. That way, several projects would benefit/profit from

Re: [racket-users] Using the draw and plot packages with other languages

2015-08-15 Thread Matthew Butterick
I don't do scientific computing, but it seems your question is to some degree about economic incentives. When you say "maximize the profit," whose profit are you referring to? When you say "minimize duplication of effort," whose labor costs are you referring to? And if this work is so valuable t

[racket-users] Using the draw and plot packages with other languages

2015-08-14 Thread Marduk Bolaños
Dear all, As everybody knows, Racket's plot library is feature-rich and produces beautiful output. The draw library is also great for generating diagrams. I prefer functional-style drawing over LaTeX packages. What I would like to do is to be able to use these libraries in Maxima, Julia and other