--- Bob McElrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > C Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Of course the best way to proceed is to document the ideas and > > implement them as part of Axiom, but until then it might be nice to > > be able to interface with the outside world. Sucking in things > > like the cernlibs is not for the faint of heart ;-). > > Uh...I know this is probably a joke, but...as a daily user of > cernlib... the functionality of cernlib has no intersection with > axiom.
Really? I thought they at least had some numerical routines that could be of interest? http://wwwasdoc.web.cern.ch/wwwasdoc/cernlib.html I don't use it though, so I may be wrong. I was just thinking CAS+High Energy Physics tasks might be a good match, but I readily admit I don't know cernlib all that well. > *I* can imagine wanting to interface the two. But I wouldn't want to > inflict that can of worms on anyone else. Heh - I guess it's from my own undergraduate physics background, but I tend to focus on CAS usage as it relates to physics. Cernlibs naturally lept to mind when thinking about large, complex packages ;-). Feyncalc would probably be my first target once the basic abilities for physical science packages have been implemented (units, dimensions, and error analysis) since that's a Mathematica package and already part of a CAS environment (plus I know my own old department used it). We discussed the possibility on the list a while back - I think it would be really neat to try implementing Feyncalc in Axiom, and I have a feeling it would appeal to a lot of High Energy Physics departments who want to run Feyncalc but have no $$ for Mathematica. The problem is I don't know if anyone would use it even if I did implement it - I'm not part of the high energy physics community so it's dubious whether people would trust it enough to want to use it - they might prefer to stick to Mathematica. Anyway, the attempt would be both educational and interesting, and might provide enough momentum for some grad student to pick it up and make it robust in the eyes of the physics community. (Assuming the availability of both funding and an advisor interested in that, of course.) I'm sort of hoping Axiom might someday become the tool of choice for theoretical physics - the mathematical backbone seems to be there and physics departments are often looking to save the $$ required for things like 20 copies of Mathematica for student labs. Oh well, that's for the future if at all. Back to dimensional analysis... Cheers, CY __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer