On Friday, 11 October 2013 at 23:24:00 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
On Friday, 11 October 2013 at 23:13:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Honestly I first thought it was "linear-time algorithms".
Andrei
I thought it was some kind of algae species.
Why not just call it std.algebra?
Because, amongst people who know, numerical linear algebra
algorithms form their own little world of computing apart from
what may be called 'algebra'. 'Algebra' could mean any number of
things, like symbolic algebra, but the entire world of MATLAB/R
programmers know exactly what linalg might be. Numerical linear
algebra. See the reference text by Golub and Van Loan.
I would try to fit this module under some larger numeric or
scientific computing hierarchy, but I don't see one in D yet.
The Julia language is the competitor here, and it is already well
ahead of D, but who knows how the race will end?
-- Brian
