Announce: SLangTNG

[Sebastian Wolff <sw@...>]

Dear Lua list,

I want to use this mailing list to announce the software project 
SLangTNG which uses the Lua interpreter as its main component.


SLangTNG is an application suite which provides scientists, students 
and engineers a tool for
* fast and simple linear algebra (like MATLAB(TM)/Mathematica(TM)/Maple(TM))
* dense and sparse matrices, solvers and decompositions
* random number generation
* advanced statistics
* numerical analysis
* structural mechanics using FEM
* data visualization
* scripting using the Lua interpreter language

Target platforms:
* Linux
* Mac OS X

Licenses:
* BSD

The basic idea is to provide people with little programming skills a 
scripting engine for their engineering/numerical simulation tasks.

Lua is a full featured and probably the most efficient scripting 
language. The math kernel is based on KDE's Eigen library providing 
superfast linear algebra and algorithms. The bindings are provided 
automatically by SWIG (with custom bindings to make things 
comfortable). All algorithms are organized in modules, i.e. small C++ 
libraries which may be separated from the main package. SLangTNG is 
actually a large collection of C++ modules with common interface. 
Executables are provided by custom driver apps. By default, a simple Qt 
application and a batch mode app are provided.


Sincerely,
Sebastian Wolff