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Re: Kawa in Google Summer of Code 2014?
- From: Jamison Hope <jrh at theptrgroup dot com>
- To: "kawa at sourceware dot org list" <kawa at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 17:16:40 -0500
- Subject: Re: Kawa in Google Summer of Code 2014?
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On Feb 19, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> wrote:
> I've added Kawa to the list of GNU sub-projects
> interested in participating in GNU Summer of Code:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas-2014.html#kawa
>
> Anyone interested in mentoring a student?
> Jamison has already volunteered.
>
> Any students interested in participating?
>
> I've updated the Kawa ideas page:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/Ideas-and-tasks.html
>
> If anyone has other ideas for projects, let us hear them.
An idea I've been toying with recently is to add quaternions to
the number stack. So instead of quantity->complex->real it would
be quantity->quaternion->complex->real. This would be super handy
in my day job, which often involves manipulating 3D rotations.
I've also been thinking that it would be nice if Kawa had a package
system, somewhere where we could publish useful modules and
utilities that don't belong in the core Kawa (e.g. because they
would introduce a dependency on some third-party library). Something
analogous to Racket's PLaneT or Chicken Eggs.
--
Jamison Hope
The PTR Group
www.theptrgroup.com