On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 6:51 PM Nikhil Maan <nikhilmaa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello Ondrej, > > On Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 5:46:14 AM UTC+5:30, Ondřej Čertík wrote: >> >> Hi Nikhil, >> >> >> >> Depending on the application of this, it probably makes sense to use Clang >> to parse the C or C++ code and then go over the Clang AST and extract >> expressions from it and convert them to SymPy where it makes sense. >> >> Would you be interested in doing this (also) for Fortran? See these ideas: >> >> https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2019-Ideas#lfortran-sympy-project-ideas >> >> especially the "Parsing Fortran code to SymPy". That would be something I >> would be very interested in, and yes, I would be happy to mentor it. >> >> Perhaps we could do both C and Fortran in your proposal. For C that would be >> relatively easy due to Clang. For Fortran you would use my LFortran >> compiler. There the parser actually requires some development. C already has >> a modern production open source compiler/parser (Clang), but Fortran doesn't >> yet, and that's one thing I am trying to fix with LFortran (see >> https://docs.lfortran.org/ for other motivation). >> >> On the SymPy side, we definitely want to do both C and Fortran, so this >> would naturally lead you to design a good interface that works for both. >> Similarly as our code generation interface works for both C and Fortran. >> >> If you are interested in developing a parser and semantic representation of >> the language so that this can be done, then Fortran actually would be a >> great choice because this is exactly where we need help with LFortran. While >> for C this has already been developed in Clang, so I would suggest to just >> use it. >> >> Let me know your interests, and we can discuss further details. >> >> Ondrej > > > > Hello Ondrej, > > Thank you for showing interest in my project. It will be an honor to work > with you on this project. > > I would love to include parsing Fortran in the proposal. I would like to help > as much as I can. Sympy has made doing mathematics so much convenient, > whatever I can do to make it more convenient for others, I will try my best. > > There was a dicussion i saw in a thread about being able to understand simple > instructions like 'integrate sin x over x' and convert them to sympy syntax. > That will be a long and complex task. But this project can be extended > further after fortran and C to understand natural language. > But, for now first i would like to focus on Fortran and C first. I'll read > the clang and Lfortran documentation asap and start working on a plan.
Natural language parsing is a whole other beast. I would suggest sticking to C and Fortran. A project to handle natural language queries could easily fill a whole summer on its own. Aaron Meurer > > I would also like to thank you for creating sympy. it made doing complex > mathematics so much better. Instead of just looking at some mix of keywords > and operators which is very hard to understand, we can actually see and > understand what we're doing. > > I'll get to work now > > Sincerely, > Nikhil Maan > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/36c4c6db-3f9c-4c38-a38c-227b9e183b2b%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6%2B8DpW1Ffgg9mZxi9O_1ar6aZK4%3Dftg2NA72mnbeN9bow%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
