[racket] Algebra system

From: Laurent (laurent.orseau at gmail.com)
Date: Sat Dec 7 04:13:04 EST 2013

 On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Tomasz Rola <rtomek at ceti.pl> wrote:

> http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/JACAL
>

Thanks Tomasz. Looks quite interesting but maybe a little simple (I didn't
yet look deeply into it though).


On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Jens Axel Søgaard <jensaxel at soegaard.net>wrote:

> Bracket contains the core of CAS. See for example:
>
>
> https://github.com/soegaard/bracket/blob/master/bracket/examples/newton-iteration.rkt
>
> If you want to try it, then use
>
>   cd bracket
>   raco link bracket
>
> and run the example in DrRacket.
>

Very nice! I'll take a longer look at it next week.


> Be patient the Science Collection and Herman's memoize collections are
> used.
> (And memoize in turn uses the schemathics test suite, which takes for ever
> to fetch and compile).
>

Thanks to John Clements this was actually not needed (well, after forking
and changing the relevant lines)

There is also the beginnings of a GUI:
>   https://github.com/soegaard/bracket/blob/master/gui/racket-cas.rkt
> Open the file in DrRacket and click run.
> There is an example in the source.
>
> But ... this is pre-pre-alpha software.
>

Looks very promising :)
The Cocoa dependency failed (Ubuntu here) but it's used only for clipboard,
which is used only in one menu item. Commenting out these lines worked
without problem.

Thank you all,
Laurent
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