[Lush-users] ANN: PSU Lush 1.2

[Ralf J. <jue...@cs...>]

Ladies and Gentleman,

PSU Lush 1.2 is out: ftp://ftp.cs.pdx.edu/pub/psu-lush/psu-lush-1.2.tar.gz


New features in version 1.2
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* A facility for managing namespaces
   (see "namespaces")
* A facility for organizing multiple windows on screen
   (see "tiling")
* An iterator datatype and initial iterator library
   (see "iterable")
* many more minor additions and language changes


Lush & PSU Lush
---------------
Lush is an object-oriented programming language designed
for researchers, experimenters, and engineers interested in
large-scale numerical and graphic applications. Lush is
designed to be used in situations where one would want to
combine the flexibility of a high-level, weakly-typed
interpreted language, with the efficiency of a strongly-typed,
natively-compiled language, and with the easy integration of
code written in C, C++, or other languages.

PSU Lush is a derivative of Lush and is maintained by lush
programmers at Portland State University. It features an
improved array API and other, additional language features.
PSU Lush is not entirely backward compatible with Lush, but
it is easy to adapt existing Lush code.


Un-/known problems
------------------
o Not all Lush code under the packages directory was
   adapted to PSU Lush. Packages that we did adapt are:
   * OpenCV
   * OpenGL & GLUT
   * GSL & libnum

   (This list will get longer in upcoming releases. In the
   meantime we will gladly incorporate patches to other
   packages that users send us.)

o We did not try to build PSU Lush on other platforms
   than Linux.


Cheers,
Ralf