[kde-edu]: development of math application

[Frederik Gladhorn]

Hi!
I'd appreciate an app like that. But I think it's quite an effort. 
Yes, Matlab combines math and electronics and much more. But it is really 
complex. This would be a project for many years...
So maybe it would be easier to look at something complete. Especially 
scientific tools should be seperated into library and gui parts. Matlab for 
example does have a shell version. That is great for scripts and limited 
enviroments.
Also supporting different guis would be good, especially for big apps as that.
I guess it would be much more productive to use existing apps and build upon 
them.

Have you ever looked at scilab?
www.scilab.org
It's gui is ugly as hell, (the last time I looked at it), but I has almost all 
of what you want. It has some impressive demos. Even a sort of simulink is 
there. And it supports different platforms (win/mac/linux).

I would really suggest that you give scilab a great gui. Make a KSkylab ;)

Kind regards,
Frederik

PS:
Copying all of Matlab might be difficult regarding to copyright.

By the way - I think gpl and java is possible, not sure. And java will be 
gpl'ed soon, I think.


El Lunes, 19 de Marzo de 2007 21:51, Ejaz Ahmed escribió:
> hello to all of kde edu developers.
> i am a student of electrical engineering in pakistan and i am intended to
> start a new project at kde edu which is a mega math and electrical
> application.the main features of it are listed below
>
> 1-it should be in general a language of technical computing and 100%
> compatible with matlab . 2- it should not run in terminal ,rather it should
> run in GUI mode. 3-it should have built in compiler to generate os
> compatible executable files. 4-it should be written in C++ and QT4.
> 5-it should have some builtin functions to interfere with serial and
> parallel port of computer. 6-it should provide some support to embedded
> devices like microcontrollers etc 7-it should have its own plotting tools
> unlike octave which use gnu plot why?(because gnu plot is not compatible
> with qt) definitely you people would have been wondering why i am making a
> new thing while gnu octave is present. of course it seems silly but there
> are some limitations in octave which is 1-its plotting tools is not good
> 2-its syntax violates bit from matlab
> 3-it uses external tools like koctave to provide gui editor
> 4- it does not provide support for embedded devices
>
> i also talked to one of my teachers that i want to do this. he appreciated
> me . in that time i was willing to use java for its development but after
> that i came to know that softwares developed in java could not be licenced
> as GPL as jdk is not GPL.anybody willing to join me is appreciated. plz
> mail me at
> u04f061 at hotmail.com
> for further info .
> i am waiting for your response
> thanks
>
>
>
>
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