Re: Kawa in Google Summer of Code 2014?

[Jamison Hope <jrh@theptrgroup.com>]

On Feb 19, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> wrote:

> I've added Kawa to the list of GNU sub-projects
> interested in participating in GNU Summer of Code:
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas-2014.html#kawa
> 
> Anyone interested in mentoring a student?
> Jamison has already volunteered.
> 
> Any students interested in participating?
> 
> I've updated the Kawa ideas page:
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/Ideas-and-tasks.html
> 
> If anyone has other ideas for projects, let us hear them.

An idea I've been toying with recently is to add quaternions to
the number stack.  So instead of quantity->complex->real it would
be quantity->quaternion->complex->real.  This would be super handy
in my day job, which often involves manipulating 3D rotations.

I've also been thinking that it would be nice if Kawa had a package
system, somewhere where we could publish useful modules and
utilities that don't belong in the core Kawa (e.g. because they
would introduce a dependency on some third-party library).  Something
analogous to Racket's PLaneT or Chicken Eggs.

--
Jamison Hope
The PTR Group
www.theptrgroup.com