Re: Haskell in Scientific Computing?

[Jan Skibinski]

On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, David Barton wrote:

> I don't know if it is better to go with a commercial product here
> (like Mathlab) or one of the semi-public domain (Reduce) or wholly
> public domain tools here.  It would be a shame if Haskell were
> publically available but the thing that made it useful for scientific
> computing was not.

        Very valid point!

        For example, EiffelMath of ISE Eiffel interfaces to NAG
        (Numerical Algorithm Group, England) library. But ISE Eiffel is
        commercial, so one could expect that a serious user of
        mathematical algorithms could afford paying for another required
        commercial piece of software. (I do not know whether it
        is currently bundled with EiffelMath, or not). 

        But, even so, I would expect that some people hesitate before
        making such decision, especially, if they own some introductory
        version of Eiffel -- targetted for broad audience, such as MS
        Windows "personal" package, or whatever it is called.


        Jan