[Oberon] Project Voyager ?

[Douglas G. Danforth]

Chris,

If I may be so bold as to step in for creators of statlab/Voyager the
distinction is in the word "stat" which stands for Statistics.
statlab is a Statistics Analysis Laboratory.  Not at all the
same thing as S3 which is a GUI on top of an operating system
which is generic to all domains.

Other statistical packages on the market are: SAS, SPSS,
BMD, and others.  They all do linear regression, one-way
analysis of variance and nonparametric statistics to name
just a few of their capabilities.  Statlab is the only package
that I know of (correct me here if I am wrong) that is
written in the Oberon programming language.

And yes, I agree with you that the first 5 pages of an introduction
to a project should be written by someone new to the project.

-Doug


cglur at onwe.co.za wrote:
> 
> Having been directed here, from this mailing list:
> 
>  http://www.statlab.uni-heidelberg.de/projects/voyager/
> 
> > Voyager  is  a  project  to  explore the feasibility of a portable and
> >    extensible  system  for  simulation  and  data  analysis  systems.
> 
> I still don't see how this differs from S3, which is also a portable,
> extensible system  for  simulation  and  data  analysis ?
> 
> Perhaps some project to which this is specifically aimed could be
> listed to justify further investigation ?
> 
> I have long maintained that persons who have been long and
> deeply involved in developing new 'systems' are unqualified to write
> an introduction to their project.  For obvious reasons they can't have
> an outsider's view.
> 
> -- Chris Glur.
> 
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