SciSmalltalk

It would be great to stab the R beast through the heart.   But it will be tough go given the richness of analyses that R can do.  I have been tinkering with PLplot for a while, but there are some graphs for R is simply more capable, and the modeling and tests are undeniably powerful.

Bill


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Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 8:44 AM
To: Moose-related development
Cc: Pharo Development
Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] [Moose-dev] SciSmalltalk

Hi Serge!

I welcome very much this initiative.
Something that I believe is important, is an pdf graph exporter (maybe based on EyeSee) and the various test distribution (e.g., CHI). The fact that these two are missing is exactly the reason why I use R and Numbers instead of Pharo.

I sincerely believe that Pharo can be an alternative to R and Maple. A bit more is needed from our side however.

Alexandre


On 27 Mar 2012, at 21:38, Serge Stinckwich wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> we already discuss about that in the moose and pharo mailing-list.
> Maybe this is too late, but please find a small proposal for gsoc 2012 below.
>
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>
> Name: SciSmalltalk
> Level: Intermediate
> Possible mentor: Serge Stinckwich
> Possible second mentor: ?
>
> Description
> Smalltalk has at that time no equivalent to mathematical libraries
> like NumPy, SciPy (Python) or SciRuby (Ruby).
> The goal of the SciSmalltalk project is to develop an open-source
> library of mathematical for the Smalltalk programming language (MIT
> Licence).
>
> Technical Details
> The development of this project is to be done in Pharo Smalltalk, but
> the code should be portable to other Smalltalk flavors.
> Numerous Smalltalk projects provide already some basic functionalities
> (complex and quaternions extensions, random number generator, fuzzy
> algorithms, LAPACK linear algebra package, Didier Besset's numerical
> methods, ...). A first task will be to do an audit of all the existing
> projects that provide some mathematical stuff and build a Pharo
> Configuration to load them in a fresh Pharo Smalltalk image. After
> that, the student help by his/her mentors will decide what are the
> numeric algorithms to develop in priority.
>
> The student will need to know some basic numeric algorithms usually
> found in such libraries.
> Units tests should also be provided.
>
> Benefits to the Student
> The student will help the Smalltalk community in a very concrete way.
> The student will learn to design well-designed code with tests.
>
> Benefits to the Community
> Having a package providing more elaborate numeric libraries is really
> important to develop the use Smalltalk in new domains (robotics, high
> performance computing, computer vision, bio-computing, ...). The lack
> of numeric librairies hamper the use of the Smalltalk in a scientific
> context at the moment. An another goal of this project is to develop a
> community of people interested by these topic.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Serge Stinckwich
> UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC), Hanoi, Vietnam
> Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk
> http://doesnotunderstand.org/
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For what I need R, Pharo can easily be better. Just an EyeSee pdf exporter will give me enough energy to build things on top of it.

Alexandre



Le 28 mars 2012 à 10:21, "Schwab,Wilhelm K" <[hidden email]> a écrit :

> It would be great to stab the R beast through the heart.   But it will be tough go given the richness of analyses that R can do.  I have been tinkering with PLplot for a while, but there are some graphs for R is simply more capable, and the modeling and tests are undeniably powerful.
>
> Bill
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: [hidden email] [[hidden email]] on behalf of Alexandre Bergel [[hidden email]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 8:44 AM
> To: Moose-related development
> Cc: Pharo Development
> Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] [Moose-dev] SciSmalltalk
>
> Hi Serge!
>
> I welcome very much this initiative.
> Something that I believe is important, is an pdf graph exporter (maybe based on EyeSee) and the various test distribution (e.g., CHI). The fact that these two are missing is exactly the reason why I use R and Numbers instead of Pharo.
>
> I sincerely believe that Pharo can be an alternative to R and Maple. A bit more is needed from our side however.
>
> Alexandre
>
>
> On 27 Mar 2012, at 21:38, Serge Stinckwich wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> we already discuss about that in the moose and pharo mailing-list.
>> Maybe this is too late, but please find a small proposal for gsoc 2012 below.
>>
>> ================================================================
>>
>> Name: SciSmalltalk
>> Level: Intermediate
>> Possible mentor: Serge Stinckwich
>> Possible second mentor: ?
>>
>> Description
>> Smalltalk has at that time no equivalent to mathematical libraries
>> like NumPy, SciPy (Python) or SciRuby (Ruby).
>> The goal of the SciSmalltalk project is to develop an open-source
>> library of mathematical for the Smalltalk programming language (MIT
>> Licence).
>>
>> Technical Details
>> The development of this project is to be done in Pharo Smalltalk, but
>> the code should be portable to other Smalltalk flavors.
>> Numerous Smalltalk projects provide already some basic functionalities
>> (complex and quaternions extensions, random number generator, fuzzy
>> algorithms, LAPACK linear algebra package, Didier Besset's numerical
>> methods, ...). A first task will be to do an audit of all the existing
>> projects that provide some mathematical stuff and build a Pharo
>> Configuration to load them in a fresh Pharo Smalltalk image. After
>> that, the student help by his/her mentors will decide what are the
>> numeric algorithms to develop in priority.
>>
>> The student will need to know some basic numeric algorithms usually
>> found in such libraries.
>> Units tests should also be provided.
>>
>> Benefits to the Student
>> The student will help the Smalltalk community in a very concrete way.
>> The student will learn to design well-designed code with tests.
>>
>> Benefits to the Community
>> Having a package providing more elaborate numeric libraries is really
>> important to develop the use Smalltalk in new domains (robotics, high
>> performance computing, computer vision, bio-computing, ...). The lack
>> of numeric librairies hamper the use of the Smalltalk in a scientific
>> context at the moment. An another goal of this project is to develop a
>> community of people interested by these topic.
>>
>> Regards,
>> --
>> Serge Stinckwich
>> UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC), Hanoi, Vietnam
>> Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk
>> http://doesnotunderstand.org/
>> _______________________________________________
>> Moose-dev mailing list
>> [hidden email]
>> https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev
>
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