Re: Lisp Math Engine

From: Surendra Singhi (efuzzyone_at_netscape.net)
Date: 11/16/04 

Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:32:14 -0700

Sashank Varma wrote:

> In article <cnbo0k$a46$1@news.asu.edu>,
> Surendra Singhi <efuzzyone@netscape.net> wrote:
>
>
>>One last thing, there is an open source software called R (some
>>descendant of S) for statistics, I don't know much about it, but the
>>language which it uses is very much lisp like. You can look into it.
>
>
> R is good for statistics and supports the associated mathematics
> (e.g., linear algebra, probability) but lacks the broad coverage of
> systems like Macsyma, Maple, and Mathematica.
>
> As far as the Lispiness of the language, R mixes the Algol-like
> syntax of S with the semantics of Scheme/Lisp. As a result, I had
> very little difficulty learning R and, whenever I vennture off the
> beaten path, I find it quite easy to guess what R will do based on
> the Lisp analogy.
Any idea what is the base language which was used to develop R
compiler/system/package? 

-- 
Surendra Singhi
www.public.asu.edu/~sksinghi

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