Scientific computing with D

[Lars Kyllingstad]

BCS wrote:
> Hello Lars,
>>
>> Myself, I've written/ported some routines for numerical
>> differentiation and integration, one- and multi-dimensional
>> root-finding and some very basic linear algebra, but so far only for
>> personal use. Currently, I'm thinking of porting QUADPACK to D.
>>
> 
> If you want, I can get you access to scrapple to host what you have.

At some point, maybe. As it is now, what I've written requires a bit 
more work and structure to be useful to others as a standalone library. 
But thanks anyway, I'll let you know if I need access. :)

>> I think it would be really nice if many or all of the above mentioned
>> things could be collected in a single library, together with all kinds
>> of other stuff.
> [...]
>>
>> So, what do you think? Am I making any sense? Am I the only one
>> interested in these things?
>>
> 
> The libs you list are rather scattered and I don't think they are likely 
> to be merged any time soon. OTOH some sort of snapshot pack that 
> collects stable versions that are known to work together might be 
> practical.

I think you're right that a direct merge isn't feasible. But the libs I 
mentioned still illustrate the fact that there are people in the D 
community with both the talent and the interest for these things. My 
hope was just to get all these people to work together on a single, 
coherent library. :)

-Lars