Re: Hacking BeanShell with JavaCC

Bob,

I share you desire for an open source MATLAB replacement/competitor.  If
you've never scene Groovy, check it out at http://groovy.codehaus.org/.
It's a Java based scripting language that is a lot more "MATLAB like"
then BeanShell.  It supports operator overloading and lots of other
features to make it a more suitable base for MATLAB.  Someone has even
started such an effort called GroovyLab
http://groovy.codehaus.org/GroovyLab.  It hasn't gotten very far, but it
is getting some attention.  I've been pushing this idea in Boeing for
years, but these efforts have to reach a certain critical mass before
they catch on.

Scott...

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob F [mailto:citibob@...] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 10:12 PM
To: Daniel Leuck
Cc: beanshell-developers@...
Subject: Re: [Beanshell-dev] Hacking BeanShell with JavaCC

Hey thanks, this is really neat stuff, and along the lines of what I've
been wanting.

I would love to see a BeanShell-based MATLAB replacement.  I have all
the computational components needed for it, I just need a good syntax
from within BeanShell; that includes matrix notation (similar to the  
lists described here), as well as a bunch of funny infix operators.   
With this base, it should not be hard.

Alas, I don't have the time now, but is anyone else interested in
picking it up?  I can certainly point out the matrix libraries I think
one should use.

-- Bob

On Apr 15, 2008, at 10:43 PM, Daniel Leuck wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> I recently wrote a blog post that may be of interest to BeanShell 
> developers.  The short post demonstrates how easy it is to add simple 
> features to the language:
> http://www.techhui.com/profiles/blog/show?id=1702911%3ABlogPost%
> 3A10425
>
> I plan to do a few follow up posts covering additional features such 
> as named arguments and extender methods.
>
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