[Pythonmac-SIG] How well does Python really work on the Mac?

[Matthew Barre]

Concerning numerical computing/math in java:
http://gams.nist.gov/javanumerics/

Concerning plotting in java:
http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Galerie/ContourPlotApplet_Eng.html
http://arm1.ssec.wisc.edu/~rayg/PlotStream/overview.html
http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/leighb/graph/

I think my wording was incorrect since some are not packages, but instead
open classes written by other people. I don't know if Java would be fast
enough at the number crunching, but might be worth poking around the web for
a few minutes to find out. I guess that sort of strays off the fact of
Python though...well he could still use JPython to leverage some of each
though I guess. :)

-Matt
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"Luck will often enough save a man, if his courage hold." -Buliwyf

> From: Ron Cohen  <rcohen@llnl.gov>
> Date: Fri,  7 Apr 2000 12:55:00 -0700 (PDT)
> To: Matthew Barre <mbarre@mac.com>
> Cc: Lou Pecora <pecora@anvil.nrl.navy.mil>, <pythonmac-sig@python.org>
> Subject: Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] How well does Python really work on the Mac?
> 
> Please tell me, what Java packages are geared toward plotting and
> optimized math functions?
> 
> -Ron Cohen-
> 
> 
> Matthew Barre writes:
>> I think you need to look at JPython. The portability and ease of Python, but
>> access to all the Java packages...several of which are geared toward
>> plotting and optimized math functions. Just my two cents :) I'm just
>> learning Python on my Mac and its remarkably intuitive and due to the active
>> interperter really easy to play with.
>> 
>> -Matt
>> ---------
>> "Luck will often enough save a man, if his courage hold." -Buliwyf
>> 
>>> From: Lou Pecora <pecora@anvil.nrl.navy.mil>
>>> Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 08:54:05 -0400
>>> To: pythonmac-sig@python.org
>>> Subject: [Pythonmac-SIG] How well does Python really work on the Mac?
>>> 
>>> I've been looking into trying Python as a RAD/experimental tool for
>>> numerical programming and scientific work and all of you have been very
>>> helpful so far.
>>> 
>>> I do have some reservations though and it seems to me that Python use is a
>>> bit convoluted in that to use something like Numerical Recipes I have to
>>> fire up my C compiler (codewarrior - very nice), write an interface for the
>>> Python module to use the special routine (say eigenvalue function), make a
>>> C-module (can CW do this?), make it available to Python.
>>> 
>>> Have any of you done this?  Is it easy, hard, transparent, entangled?  I
>>> like what I see in the language very much and would love to jump in, but
>>> this "gotcha" keeps me worrying that the conneciton to standard numerical
>>> routines in C or those I would write in C for speed would be fragile -- we
>>> are depending on someone's writing the library for those Py_ calls right?
>>> 
>>> Sorry for being so worrisome, but learning a new language is a big
>>> investment.  I'm really hoping for good answers 'cause I'd love to take the
>>> plunge.
>>> 
>>> Thanks for your help.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Lou Pecora
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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