I mean, "something as good".

swannodette · on April 30, 2009

It's always good to do your research before making a statement on a topic you might not have a complete picture of:

Colt: http://acs.lbl.gov/~hoschek/colt/ Parallel Colt: http://sites.google.com/site/piotrwendykier/software/paralle...

There's been talk about integrating this functionality into Clojure. Incanter is an example of a project by someone who wanted to get primitive support for matrix math and has had quite a bit of success.

herdrick · on May 1, 2009

Wow, Incanter looks great. I've got to look into this more.

How do you know I don't do my research by making provocative statements on public fora?

jimbokun · on May 1, 2009

"How do you know I don't do my research by making provocative statements on public fora?"

There is something to be said for that. I would not have thought to Google for "R-like interactive environment, built with Clojure and Java charting and numerics libraries." But now that I know it exists, I'm pretty excited about the possibilities.

arohner · on April 30, 2009

I don't know enough about numpy or the Java attempts, but have you seen Incanter? (http://github.com/liebke/incanter/tree/6ef7e36c285e9c50c89fd...) rhickey has also expressed interest in integrating fast numerical processing into clojure.

jimbokun · on April 30, 2009

Wow, that looks potentially awesome. Certainly looks like it has the potential to compete with NumPy and R. Nice use of Clojure to tie together unrelated Java libraries with a useful syntax and REPL style exploration.