Interactive shell using GSL (ala Maple)

Interactive shell using GSL (ala Maple)

[Scott Fraser]

Hi all,

recently to keep myself amused whilst looking for a job I've started
writing a interactive shell which will use the GSL to solve problems. 
I've the initial parser working (but not too well at present) and I am
starting to add some function calls.  The goal would be something like:

$ solve_quad(1,2,1);
x1 = 1
x2 = 1

i.e. the call solves x+2x+1 = 0.

I will keep working on this, but does anyone know of a similar project? 
Any thoughts or comments would be welcome as well.

Thanks,

Scott

Re: Interactive shell using GSL (ala Maple)

[Fleur Kelpin]

Maybe you know Octave?
http://www.octave.org
It is more like Matlab than Maple/Mathematica but does feature an
interactive shell and plotting capabilities. You can link external C or
C++ modules.

Re: Interactive shell using GSL (ala Maple)

[Jochen Küpper]

On 28 Aug 2002 22:54:14 +0000 Scott Fraser wrote:

Scott> recently to keep myself amused whilst looking for a job I've
Scott> started writing a interactive shell which will use the GSL to
Scott> solve problems.

Scott> I will keep working on this, but does anyone know of a similar
Scott> project? Any thoughts or comments would be welcome as well.

Python + pygsl :))

Greetings,
Jochen
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Re: Interactive shell using GSL (ala Maple)

[Achim Gädke]

Hi Scott!

maybe it is the easiest thing to start with python and pygsl - and write 
a solver module. So it is possible to use the parser of a quite intuive 
language and have all advantages of types and classes and syntactic sugar...

Just look out for http://pygsl.sourceforge.net/

Yours, Achim

Scott Fraser wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>recently to keep myself amused whilst looking for a job I've started
>writing a interactive shell which will use the GSL to solve problems. 
>I've the initial parser working (but not too well at present) and I am
>starting to add some function calls.  The goal would be something like:
>
>$ solve_quad(1,2,1);
>x1 = 1
>x2 = 1
>
>i.e. the call solves x+2x+1 = 0.
>