From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 26 11: 0:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ptd.net (mail1.ha-net.ptd.net [207.44.96.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C740E37B759 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 11:00:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tms2@mail.ptd.net) Received: (qmail 16713 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2000 18:00:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.ptd.net) (204.186.33.237) by mail.ptd.net with SMTP; 26 Jul 2000 18:00:16 -0000 Message-ID: <397F2708.124ADBD4@mail.ptd.net> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 13:59:36 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" Organization: None X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jason C. Wells" Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Language for Modeling Mechanical System References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Jason C. Wells" wrote: > > 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?" You might try Maxima, a Macsyma clone: http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/wfs/maxima.html -- I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. -- Lady Bracknell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message