[Pharo-project] Object Oriented Implementation of Numerical Methods" under the MIT license
I want to thanks didier for releasing the code of his book under MIT. Thanks! Begin forwarded message:
From: Didier Besset <didier@ieee.org> Date: October 14, 2010 8:06:52 PM GMT+02:00 To: Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> Subject: Disclaimer
I hereby release the code of my book "Object Oriented Implementation of Numerical Methods" under the MIT license.
Didier Besset
That is wonderful news! Didier, There is a natural question that arises: what are the performance implications of Smalltalk or Java? Why not C with a Smalltalk wrapper? I have not tried number crunching with Cog or NativeBoost doing some of the expensive lifting, but absent those advantages, the benefit from coding tight loops in C has been nothing short of eerie. I have never tried Java for it. If there is a speed boost to be had, would a port offend you? I am a pragmatist, so it would begin one function at a time, chosen by the type of work I do and driven by when the machine grunts. Thanks, Bill ________________________________________ From: pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr [pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Stéphane Ducasse [stephane.ducasse@inria.fr] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 4:02 PM To: Pharo Development; The general-purpose Squeak developers list; ESUG Mailing list Cc: Didier H. Besset Subject: [Pharo-project] Object Oriented Implementation of Numerical Methods" under the MIT license I want to thanks didier for releasing the code of his book under MIT. Thanks! Begin forwarded message:
From: Didier Besset <didier@ieee.org> Date: October 14, 2010 8:06:52 PM GMT+02:00 To: Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> Subject: Disclaimer
I hereby release the code of my book "Object Oriented Implementation of Numerical Methods" under the MIT license.
Didier Besset
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Maybe a silly question, but it is the "code" of the book "Object Oriented Implementation of Numerical Methods", so the book itself won't be available for free? Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
I want to thanks didier for releasing the code of his book under MIT. Thanks!
Didier Besset wrote:
Begin forwarded message:
From: Didier Besset <didier@ieee.org> Date: October 14, 2010 8:06:52 PM GMT+02:00 To: Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> Subject: Disclaimer
I hereby release the code of my book "Object Oriented Implementation of Numerical Methods" under the > > MIT license.
Didier Besset
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Why should it be free? It might be nice to have an electronic copy, or just permission to scan and release, in escrow. That could be done quietly between Didier and ESUG, and triggered if the book is no longer in print. If it is in print and the code is worth having we should be buying copies. To do otherwise undercuts investment by both the author and the publisher. I bought Numerical Recipes with a much smaller carrot than MIT source. The only reason I did not buy the book long ago is that the mix of topics was not a direct match for me, and because I generally look for C code that I can compile into libraries with clean interfaces. I do more FFT, DWT than anything else; if they are in the book, I missed it. Bill ________________________________________ From: pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr [pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Geert Claes [geert.wl.claes@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 2:42 AM To: pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Object Oriented Implementation of Numerical Methods" under the MIT license Maybe a silly question, but it is the "code" of the book "Object Oriented Implementation of Numerical Methods", so the book itself won't be available for free? Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
I want to thanks didier for releasing the code of his book under MIT. Thanks!
Didier Besset wrote:
Begin forwarded message:
From: Didier Besset <didier@ieee.org> Date: October 14, 2010 8:06:52 PM GMT+02:00 To: Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> Subject: Disclaimer
I hereby release the code of my book "Object Oriented Implementation of Numerical Methods" under the > > MIT license.
Didier Besset
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