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Hi all,

I am a graduate student in Electrical Engineering (DSP) at Michigan State 
University. I would like to write a C++ program that will provide the 
many important mathmatical functions (a la Matlab).

I had posted (on comp.os.linux) that I was interested in finding out whether
a PD package existed that allowed me to perform a lot of the computations 
that commercial programs like Matlab allow. If not, I stated, I would like 
to implement such a package. In response, a reader sent me the following 
message:

>>> There is indeed a (old) PD version of Matlab.  That is before
>>> it became big and famous and commercial.

>>> There are some others working on a PD Matlab, I think.
>>> Write a posting on sci.math.num-analysis.
>>> The modern approach is to do it in C++, so the Matlab project
>>> often coincides with the project of machine-translation
>>> of Lapack into C++.
>>> 
>>> [stuff deleted]
>>> 
>>> You may want to look at
>>> 1. netlib/c/free-c
>>> 2. there is a alpha library in pub on terminator.cc.umich.edu
>>> 	The library is lib.tar.Z.  If you are not fluently setup to

I was inspired by the example of Linus Torvalds, who (with a lot of help)
"created" a new implementation of Linux (available freely) for the 80386
AT machines. Along the way, he learnt a lot, and helped provide a valuable
tool for the rest of us poor students 8->. 

Along the same lines, I would like to write or work on such a package. I
would appreciate any ideas and pointers on this subject. I would also love 
to get in touch with people working on the Lapack to C++ conversion project
or the PD Matlab project.

Thanks,

Later
Divya
(sundaram@cps.msu.edu)