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Re:MatLisp: A library for scientific computation in Common Lisp by frozenport on Sunday March 15, 2015 @04:34PM (#9207991)
My favorite E&M simulator is MEEP, http://ab-initio.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/Meep.

Although written in C++, it uses MIT-Scheme/guile as the control language. This is a problem because the steep learning curve discourages undergraduate students.

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Re:MatLisp: A library for scientific computation in Common Lisp by etiam on Sunday March 15, 2015 @07:34PM (#9208728)
Ungrateful undergraduates. You give them a language that can be learned at a high rate and they go all demoralized on you! ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_curve

MEEP looks interesting. Filed, for future use.

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