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| Name | Mastrave |
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| Short description | GNU GPLv3-covered library for effective semantic array programming. It is as compatible as possible with both GNU Octave and MATLAB computing environments, offering general purpose, portable and freely available features for the scientific community. |
| Full description | Mastrave is a free software library written to perform vectorized scientific computing and to be as compatible as possible with both GNU Octave and Matlab computing frameworks, offering general purpose, portable and freely available features for the scientific community. Mastrave is mostly oriented to ease complex modeling tasks such as those typically needed within environmental models, even when involving irregular and heterogeneous data series.
Semantic array programmingThe Mastrave project attempts to allow a more effective, quick interoperability between GNU Octave and Matlab users by using a reasonably well documented wrap around the main incompatibilities between those computing environments and by promoting a reasonably general idiom based on their common, stable syntagms. It also promotes the systematic adoption of data-transformation abstractions and lightweight semantic constraints to enable concise and reliable implementations of models following the paradigm of semantic array programming. There are a couple of underlying ideas: library design is language design and vice versa (Bell labs); language notation is definitely a "tool of thought" (Iverson), in the sense that there is a feedback between programming/mathematical notation and the ability to think new scientific insights. And perhaps ethic ones.
Science and societyMastrave is free software, which is software respecting your freedom. As many other free scientific softwares, it is offered to the scientific community to also promote the development of a free society more concerned about cooperation rather than competitiveness, heading toward knowledge and culture freedom. Such a vision implies the possibility for motivated individuals to freely access, review and contribute even to the cutting-edge academic culture. This possibility relies on the development of tools and methodologies helping to overcome economic, organizational and institutional barriers (i.e. knowledge oligopolies) while systematically promoting reproducible research. This is a long-term goal to which the free software paradigm can and has been able to actively cooperate. |
| Homepage URL | http://mastrave.org |
| Is GNU | No |
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| User level | advanced |
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| VCS checkout command | cvs -z3 -d":pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.nongnu.org:/sources/mastrave" co mastrave |
| Computer languages | Matlab/GNU Octave,Bash script,C++,Prolog,PHP,xslt, |
| Documentation note | The core of Mastrave is based on the essential intersection of the GNU Octave and Matlab languages. As a consequence, each module/function of the Mastrave library can be documented directly within the source code. The documentation can be accessed - as with each GNU Octave/Matlab function - by typing
help <function-name> within either GNU Octave or Matlab computing environment. According to ohloh.net, "Across all Matlab projects on Ohloh, 23% of all source code lines are comments. For Mastrave, this figure is 52%" [source: http://www.ohloh.net/p/mastrave/factoids/10257030] Each module/function of Mastrave follows a fixed semantic documentation template for support users in ergonomically accessing relevant information. The following documentation template is typical of the Mastrave project: % Copyright (C) year author(s) % % This file is part of Mastrave. % [ ... GNU GPLv3+ license notice ... ] % % --------------------------------------------------------------------------- % % [<outputs> ...] = <funname>( % <input_1> , % <input_2> = <default_2> , % ... ) % % Few (up to some tens) lines of human readable text describing the function [...] % % (optional) References: % [Bibliographic scientific references] % % % % Input arguments: % % <input_1> ::<constraint_1>:: % type constraint description % % [...] % <input_n> ::<constraint_n>:: % type constraint description % % % % Examples of usage: % % [ ... short set of mostly independent lines of code to illustrate the function main features ...] % % % % (optional) Memory requirements: % % % % See also: % [ ... related Mastrave functions ... ] % % % % Keywords: % [ ... set of meaningful keyword to ease the function discovery ... ] % % % % Version: <#a>.<#b>.<#c> |
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| Version status | alpha |
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