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Re: [REVISED^2] Re: further stab at an abstract



Here are further revisions, based on another suggestion that it is OK
to be humble, but not too humble in the first paragraph.  This
revision of the first paragraph adds some "such as..." specifics, and
merges it with the second paragraph.

I'm open to more suggestions; meanwhile I should also check to see if
there is a word limit on the abstracts (I should have done that
first).

                     The GNU Scientific Library
                  http://sourceware.cygnus.com/gsl/

The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is a collection of high quality
subroutines for the numerical solution of scientific and engineering
problems, such as numerical quadrature, root finding, pseudorandom
number generation, special functions, Fourier transforms, linear
algebra, etc.  There are many classic FORTRAN libraries which cover
similar territory, but GSL has some important differences in its
requirements, and hence in its design and implementation.

Some specific requirements are that GSL must (in no particular order)
(a) be free software (sometimes called open source software), and in
particular it is distributed under the GNU General Public Licence
(GPL); (b) be implemented in C using modern coding conventions,
calling conventions, error handling and scoping; (c) be clearly and
pedagogically documented; (d) use top quality state of the art
algorithms; (e) be portable and configurable using the standard GNU
conventions; (f) be easily used in very high level languages (Scheme,
Python, Perl, Tcl) via automatically generated wrappers.

GSL has been developed by a team of scientists and free software
hackers from several universities, laboratories and companies in the
United States and Europe.

GSL is included in the standard Linux distributions, and is used by
many researchers and some software packages.  We expect our coverage
of the standard numerical portfolio to be complete by the end of 1999,
at which point we will prepare the 1.0 release of the software.
Meanwhile, since the software is hosted on Cygnus's "sourceware site",
snapshots, anonymous CVS access, mailing list archives and so forth
can be found at the URL mentioned above.

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