Fw: OCaml App (NML) Announce

["David McClain" <dmcclain@azstarnet.com>]

The URL at the bottom of the message should have read
http://www.azstarnet.com/~dmcclain/nmlpromo.htm

not (.html).  Sorry for the inconvenience....

----- Original Message -----
From: David McClain <dmcclain@azstarnet.com>
To: <caml-list@inria.fr>
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 2:04 PM
Subject: OCaml App (NML) Announce


> Dear OCaml Enthusiasts,
>
> It has been stewing for more than a year now, a continuing work in
progress,
> but it is high time that I release a matured copy of the code and sources
to
> the world. NML (Not ML, Numeric Modeling Language, Numeric ML, Nearly ML,
> ...) is an interactive, dynamically typed, tail pure, compiled (to native
> code closures) functional language, whose syntax closely follows that of
> OCaml, but where all math operations are overloaded and vectorized on real
> and complex data in the form of lists, vectors, multidimensional arrays,
> tuples, etc.
>
> It has proven itself in the field for the past 9 months. Numerous samples
> are included with the sources, including a translation of Norvig's Prolog
> interpreter (just a toy... but it shows the power of NML for non-numeric
as
> well as numeric problems). NML is very fast!!! on large array-based
> problems, and is reasonably fast on non-numeric problems (probably not as
> efficient as OCaml) but certainly a lot easier to code interactively at
the
> command line (no type inferencing and no type checking... hence inherently
> unsafe).
>
> The application and its sources presently runs on Win/NT 4.0 and Linux.
But
> the Linux port has been ignored for the past 5 months. It produces very
nice
> looking graphics, 2-D data plots, pseudo-color image displays, and shaded
> surface plots. It is shareware in the sense of the OCaml license, and a
> request that acknowledgement be given to the original authors. Source
> consists of about 28K lines of OCaml, and 10K lines of supporting C/C++
> code.
>
> You can find more about it at
> http://www.azstarnet.com/~dmcclain/nmlpromo.html
> and the zipped sources and NML.exe at
> http://www.azstarnet.com/~dmcclain/nml.zip  (1100 KB).
>
> Many thanks to Xavier and the others at INRIA for their wonderful language
> system!!
>
> - D. McClain, Sr. Scientist
> Raytheon Systems Co.
> Tucson, AZ
>
>