freebsd-ports/lang/yorick/pkg-descr
Thomas Gellekum a04dca10be Yorick port. Yorick is an interpreted language tailored for
scientific computing.

PR:		5132
Submitted by:	Pedro Giffuni <giffunip@asme.org>
1997-11-24 09:23:01 +00:00

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Yorick is an interpreted language like Basic or Lisp. For an interpreter,
Yorick is very fast for many scientific applications. It features:
* A C-like language, but without declarative statements.
* An X window system interactive graphics package.
* Yorick's binary file package can read or write floating point
formats foreign to the machine where Yorick is running.
* A library of functions written in the Yorick language.
* Provisions for embedding compiled subroutines and functions within
a Yorick interpreter.
Because Yorick can read either text or binary files, it can be used
"out of the box" as a pre- and post-processor for most existing
physics simulation programs.
Read the article in the Nov/Dec 1995 issue of Computers in Physics
(Vol. 9, p. 609) for more details.