From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 25 23:29:38 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 7AE2737B563 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 23:29:35 -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 XAA19326 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 23:29:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 23:41:36 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcwells@utah To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Language for Modeling Mechanical System 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 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. Thank you, Jason C. Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message