My N-bits on the subject (speaking as an amateur maintainer and occassional developer of lisp-matrix, and doing a bit of non-lisp numerics/informatics/computation professionally):
I'd probably go with GSLL if you need to "get the job done" , it has a range of numerical domains implemented (but requires GSL, algorithms/implementations are reasonable but not always world-class). Matlisp works, is stable, but needs a bit of cleanup/refinement/refactoring, and requires Lapack and a few other Fortran libraries, and uses it's own FFI approach for Fortran. I wish it had a Fortran-front end for CFFI implemented. But "it works". linear-algebra (on github, and see recent posts) looks like a clean package, lisp-only, and so far I like it very much, but havn't had as much experience with it as I have with the other 3 you mention, so havn't had time to suss-out any issues. I don't recall if it has quad-programming, if not you'd have to add on the quad-programming algorithm, but that isn't too hard (i.e. following a journal article, for an undefined "hard"). You could also go via R, through RCL (works well) or RCLG (which I maintain), and the quad programming packages for that system. Highly recommend R as a non-lisp system for scientific computing. It's only fault is that it isn't common lisp. Lisp-matrix is a work in progress. As much as I'm fond of it, I have a hard time recommending it. best, -tony On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:38 PM, R. Matthew Emerson <r...@clozure.com> wrote: > What's the state of scientific computing libraries in CL? > > There appear to be numerous projects that address this particular area > at different levels: > > * GSLL: http://common-lisp.net/project/gsll/ > * Matlisp: http://matlisp.sourceforge.net/ > * lisp-matrix: http://common-lisp.net/project/lisp-matrix/ > > and certainly more. > > If anyone on the list works in this area, I'd be interested to hear > about what libraries you are using. If you'd care to share any pros and > cons, that would also be appreciated. > > (As a bit of an aside, I will mention that one particular area of > interest is quadratic programming. > > The package at http://sigpromu.org/quadprog/ package looked interesting, > but it doesn't come with source any more, and is meant to work with > Matlab. > > If by some chance someone is familiar with this area, perhaps you could > offer some recommendations? > > Pretty much anything with a C header file would be pretty easy to use.) > > _______________________________________________ > pro mailing list > pro@common-lisp.net > http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pro > -- best, -tony blindgl...@gmail.com Muttenz, Switzerland. "Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we can easily roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05). Drink Coffee: Do stupid things faster with more energy! _______________________________________________ pro mailing list pro@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pro