As a historical note, the 1978 implementation of "Franz Lisp" hosted
Macsyma on the DEC VAX 11/780 computer.
Its implementation of arrays was identical to FORTRAN, and interchange
between Lisp and FORTRAN was
easy. One of the first projects (c. 1979) was an interface between
Macsyma and MINPACK.
RJF
Raymond Toy wrote:
> Raymond Toy wrote:
>
>> After looking this over a bit, and looking at lbfgs, I think the right
>> interface to minpack's least squares solver is this:
>>
>> minpack_lsquares(vars, initpt, fcns, [jacobian = matrix], [tolerance =
>> 1d-8])
>>
>>
>
> I've implemented this and checked in the changes. The default for the
> Jacobian is true, which means to compute the Jacobian from the functions.
>
> And since the code is very similar, I've implemented the nonlinear
> solver from minpack:
>
> minpack_solve(vars, initpt, fcns, [jacobian = matrix], [tolerance = 1d-8])
>
> Some quick tests indicate that these work as expected.
>
> No documentation yet, though.
>
> Ray
>
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