[squeak-dev] Hello list

Ben Coman btc at openInWorld.com
Tue Apr 19 13:29:50 UTC 2011


You may find http://www.squeaksource.com/DHBNumerical interesting and 
the related book
Didier H. Besset's Object-Oriented Implementation of Numerical Methods: 
An Introduction with Java & Smalltalk

I can't yet comment directly on its usefulness.  I'm planning on looking 
into these in a few months after I have completed a few other priorities.

-Ben

Rodney Polkinghorne wrote:
> I've been playing with Squeak for two days.  I'm very impressed, and
> curious about the community that developed it.  So I thought I'd say
> hello.
>
> I'm a computational physicist, developing a new algorithm to integrate
> Schrodinger's equation.  I tried Smalltalk because of the integrated
> interface.  It would be good to have an exception handler that pops up
> a time series of the bad data, and lets me click to examine the
> timestep where it started to go wrong.  Smalltalk seems like the
> language most likely to do that.
>
> Now that I've tried it, I really like the access I have to the
> interpreter.  If something is broken, you can take off the cover and
> fix it.
>
> So now I have a changeset that adds "real" and "imaginary" methods to
> Number, along with a bunch of tests.  Where should I send it to be
> considered for the main distribution?
>
>
> Rodney Polkinghorne
>
>
>   




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