From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 26 23:12:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23C3137BA0B for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 23:12:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@nwlink.com) Received: from utah (jcwells@utah.nwlink.com [209.20.130.41]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA04240; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 23:10:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 23:22:43 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcwells@utah To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Roelof Osinga , cjclark@alum.mit.edu, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Language for Modeling Mechanical System In-Reply-To: <20000727112544.B7570@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > But I don't think fortran is any help at all for symbolic > manipulation, which I thought was your original requirement. It's > certainly used a lot for numbercrunching. I guess it depends on how I want my code to work. It would be nice to layout a couple of underlying diff eqs and then solve or integrate those expressions as needed. On the other hand, I can just manually write out all of the functions I need without using some higher level library. The first method seems slicker. The latter method might be more likely to get done. For any of you following this thread, I did find ccmath which is a math library in C which claims to do some of the things I need. I may make a port (if it builds cleanly) it just for the heck of it. Thanks to all for your help. Its a big, big internet out there. Your help has narrowed it down some. Thank you, Jason C. Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message