Announce: SLangTNG (#2)

[Sebastian Wolff <sw@...>]

Dear Lua list,

I want to use this mailing list to announce the software project 
SLangTNG (tng.tuxfamily.org) 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


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PS: I somehow forgot the link to the project's website. Hui, it's friday.