Re: [Haskell-cafe] Numerical methods in Haskell

2006-02-20 Thread Bjorn Lisper
David Roundy: >On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 11:47:49AM +0100, Bjorn Lisper wrote: >> >(a) It's hard to compete with existing libraries. The obvious thing is >> >not to compete; instead, just call them. But somehow that doesn't seem >> >to be as motivating. Perhaps some bindings exist though? >> >> H

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Numerical methods in Haskell

2006-02-20 Thread David Roundy
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 11:47:49AM +0100, Bjorn Lisper wrote: > >(a) It's hard to compete with existing libraries. The obvious thing is > >not to compete; instead, just call them. But somehow that doesn't seem > >to be as motivating. Perhaps some bindings exist though? > > Hard to compete, yes.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Numerical methods in Haskell

2006-02-20 Thread Bjorn Lisper
I finally got some time to answer Simon's posting: Simon P-J: >| Between google searching and looking through the activity >| report, I take it that no one has really developed serious >| libraries for matrix manipulations, diff eqs, etc. >| >| Are there any practical reasons for this or is it ju

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Numerical methods in Haskell

2006-02-10 Thread Jeremy Shaw
Hello, If you are working on finance type stuff, you may be interested in my Decimal library: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/8734 I think my 'last even' rounding algorithm is broken because I misread the spec -- so be warned: hunk ./Decimal/Operations.hs 78 -| roundHi

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Numerical methods in Haskell

2006-02-10 Thread Keean Schupke
Actually I was starting to develop a matrix library, but then I found someone beat me to it... which is nice of course because you can move straight on to using it... http://dis.um.es/~alberto/hmatrix/matrix.html It uses the GSL which can use an optimized cblas library for even faster computa

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Numerical methods in Haskell

2006-02-10 Thread Henning Thielemann
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > | Between google searching and looking through the activity > | report, I take it that no one has really developed serious > | libraries for matrix manipulations, diff eqs, etc. > | > | Are there any practical reasons for this or is it just a > | m

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Numerical methods in Haskell

2006-02-10 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| Between google searching and looking through the activity | report, I take it that no one has really developed serious | libraries for matrix manipulations, diff eqs, etc. | | Are there any practical reasons for this or is it just a | matter of the haskell community being small and there not | b

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Numerical methods in Haskell

2006-02-09 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Creighton, Friday, February 10, 2006, 12:45:21 AM, you wrote: CH> Between google searching and looking through the activity CH> report, I take it that no one has really developed serious CH> libraries for matrix manipulations, diff eqs, etc. it was a discussion and development in this dir