pkgsrc/math/xlispstat/DESCR

XLISP-STAT is a statistical environment based on a dialect of the Lisp
language called XLISP.  To facilitate statistical computations, standard Lisp
functions for addition, logarithms, etc., have been modified to operate on
lists and arrays of numbers, and a number of basic statistical functions have
been added.

A tutorial introduction to the system is available. It is written
primarily for the Macintosh version, but the differences to the UNIX
version are minor; see below. The tutorial is available as a set of
LaTeX files in xlispstat.doc.tar.Z at the ftp address above.

For further information contact: luke@umnstat.stat.umn.edu
Initial addition of xlispstat-3.52.5, a statistics/X11 based lisp interpreter. Closes pr 6234 by Rene Hexel. 1998-10-03 22:28:08 +02:00			`XLISP-STAT is a statistical environment based on a dialect of the Lisp`
			`language called XLISP. To facilitate statistical computations, standard Lisp`
			`functions for addition, logarithms, etc., have been modified to operate on`
			`lists and arrays of numbers, and a number of basic statistical functions have`
			`been added.`

			`A tutorial introduction to the system is available. It is written`
			`primarily for the Macintosh version, but the differences to the UNIX`
			`version are minor; see below. The tutorial is available as a set of`
			`LaTeX files in xlispstat.doc.tar.Z at the ftp address above.`

Update xlispstat to 3.52.18. Make me the maintainer (I guess because I'm a card-carrying statistician). Relevant changes from version 3.52.9: Switched to using sigsetjmp/siglonjmp when available to preserve signal masks (allows CONTROL-C to work on Linux). Modified startup to start hidden and minimized if -Embedded is in the command line. Cleaned up get-decoded-time. Removed savesys.lsp from distribution to force using save-workspace directly when building the mac or windows workspaces. Using save-workspace from within a file means some special variables are bound. Added support for FreeBSD (enabled standard IEEE handling of floating point zero divide). Added SYSTEM:TYPED-VECTOR-ELEMENT-SIZE. Added unsigned C character to typed vector types. Added cptr-protect to add values onto list of values protected by a typed pointer. Added user exit functions. Added support for weak boxes. Added binding of print-readably to nil around default handler printing code and around do-debugger to avoid recursive errors. Added new customizable DDE server. Added minimal implementations of copy-readtable, readtablep, and set-syntax-from-char. Added error check for non-integer index in select. Fixed defpackage to prevent duplicate nicknames. Fixed structure printing to inherit print functions. Fixed lisp2ulong to signal an error for negative instead of positive arguments. Fixed buffer underflow problem in floating point formatting. Fixed make-string to check for negative length argument. Fixed some documentation mismatches. 2000-10-15 04:23:54 +02:00			`For further information contact: luke@umnstat.stat.umn.edu`