Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:54:02 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@nwlink.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Language for Modeling Mechanical System Message-ID: <20000726145402.B6311@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000725232454.25887B-100000@utah>; from jcwells@nwlink.com on Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 11:41:36PM -0700 References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000725232454.25887B-100000@utah>
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Jason C. Wells said on Jul 25, 2000 at 23:41:36: > 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. If you want something that does symbolic manipulation like Mathematica, I don't think it exists. If you write something like that, I'm definitely interested :-) There's a slashdot thread on free symbolic packages which someone pointed out to me once, it's a bit old though: http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/00/02/27/1343255.shtml There's also a recent thing called Kalamaris, still in development, requires KDE2 to compile; I have no idea how usable that is. http://www.arrakis.es/~rlarrosa/kalamaris.html Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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