Fw: OCaml App (NML) Announce

From: David McClain (dmcclain@azstarnet.com)
Date: Fri Mar 24 2000 - 22:18:02 MET

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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: David McClain <dmcclain@azstarnet.com>
    To: <caml-list@inria.fr>
    Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 2:04 PM
    Subject: OCaml App (NML) Announce

    > Dear OCaml Enthusiasts,
    >
    > It has been stewing for more than a year now, a continuing work in
    progress,
    > but it is high time that I release a matured copy of the code and sources
    to
    > the world. NML (Not ML, Numeric Modeling Language, Numeric ML, Nearly ML,
    > ...) is an interactive, dynamically typed, tail pure, compiled (to native
    > code closures) functional language, whose syntax closely follows that of
    > OCaml, but where all math operations are overloaded and vectorized on real
    > and complex data in the form of lists, vectors, multidimensional arrays,
    > tuples, etc.
    >
    > It has proven itself in the field for the past 9 months. Numerous samples
    > are included with the sources, including a translation of Norvig's Prolog
    > interpreter (just a toy... but it shows the power of NML for non-numeric
    as
    > well as numeric problems). NML is very fast!!! on large array-based
    > problems, and is reasonably fast on non-numeric problems (probably not as
    > efficient as OCaml) but certainly a lot easier to code interactively at
    the
    > command line (no type inferencing and no type checking... hence inherently
    > unsafe).
    >
    > The application and its sources presently runs on Win/NT 4.0 and Linux.
    But
    > the Linux port has been ignored for the past 5 months. It produces very
    nice
    > looking graphics, 2-D data plots, pseudo-color image displays, and shaded
    > surface plots. It is shareware in the sense of the OCaml license, and a
    > request that acknowledgement be given to the original authors. Source
    > consists of about 28K lines of OCaml, and 10K lines of supporting C/C++
    > code.
    >
    > You can find more about it at
    > http://www.azstarnet.com/~dmcclain/nmlpromo.html
    > and the zipped sources and NML.exe at
    > http://www.azstarnet.com/~dmcclain/nml.zip (1100 KB).
    >
    > Many thanks to Xavier and the others at INRIA for their wonderful language
    > system!!
    >
    > - D. McClain, Sr. Scientist
    > Raytheon Systems Co.
    > Tucson, AZ
    >
    >



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