Hi John, I am a PhD student doing a degree in chemical engineering. I am doing some process modelling work using MIT-Scheme (scmutils to be precise) at the moment but I would like to port it to Racket, which is feasible, but does require some extra work:
- Racket already has great plotting library - FFI is relatively simple, but some conscious decisions need to be made when working with unmanaged memory of C-libraries. - I have on my TODO list to make an FFI-wrapper for Sundials library. It is not a top priority right now though as I need to have a working prototype of my model first. If there are other people interested in this wrapper, it would be great to pull the efforts together to make it (and I can also move it up on my priority list). Cheers, Alexey On Tuesday, November 3, 2015 at 3:15:25 AM UTC+2, John Kitchin wrote: > Hi all, > > I am exploring whether Racket could be a Lisp replacement for Python in > scientific and engineering calculations. I currently use Python extensively > in teaching chemical engineering courses > (http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/pycse/) and in running molecular > simulations (http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/dft-book/), but I am > interested in transitioning these to a Lisp. > > Why? Because I really like writing Lisp code, and some interesting things I > can do with it. My current experience is all with emacs-lisp, which at the > moment has no hope for replacing Python as it lacks a real ffi. > > Python works for scientific/engineering calculations because of > numpy/scipy/matplotlib which provide the majority of our needs, and largely > they just wrap C/Fortran numerical libraries. It is also distributed with > batteries included that make it trivial to install these days. It seems like > Racket can do this too. > > How feasible would it be to use Racket to solve the problems described here: > http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/pycse/pycse.pdf > > I am trying to gauge how difficult it would be to start using Racket for > these problems. Does anyone know of any similar kinds of projects as my > Python project above in Racket? > > Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
