From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 25 23:46:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from penguin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (penguin.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D57B37B697 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 23:46:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@pool0327.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net) Received: from pool0327.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net (pool0327.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.251.72]) by penguin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA03019; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 23:46:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by pool0327.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA01106; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 23:44:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 23:44:53 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: "Jason C. Wells" Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Language for Modeling Mechanical System Message-ID: <20000725234453.C307@pool0460.cvx20-bradley.dialup.e> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from jcwells@nwlink.com on Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 11:41:36PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 11:41:36PM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: > I have been conceiving a model of a motor vehicle in my head. Kinematics > calculations are no fun. I am loathe to do many calculations when I can > let a computer do them for me. > > I have looked at oodles of different "this vs that" language comparos on > the net. What I really need is symbolic math functionality. > Mathematica can do this for me. I desire to write a stand alone > program. > > I was hoping to find a language that can give me symbolic math > functionality along with integration and differentiation. The coolest > would be to find something that does math as slick as PHP does HTML. > > I am thinking of going with C or perhaps Ada, primarily because C works > with Tcl and Ada is used for missile guidance systems which are heavily > kinematic. > > If someone out there can tell me of a language I can use that can do what > I need more easily, I would love to hear your suggestions. The big > criteria is, "Does the language make mathematical modeling easy?" > > I figure there just has to be something out there that does mathematical > modeling. I just haven't found it yet. It's what FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation) was made for. Just in case -> ;) -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message