From chemistry-request@ccl.net Sun Dec 8 21:19:15 1991 From: Chris Chisolm Subject: Re: Application development (entirely) in C To: chemistry@ccl.net Date: Sun, 8 Dec 91 19:09:09 Time to buy Katrina lunch Status: R > I agree. What we really need is something like a 4th generation language > as a front end to some kind of application builder. I have a background > in quantum chemistry but I have worked for the last 4 years with applications > in the visualization of and calculations on protein structure so I realize > that the needs for these both fields are different. I would like to see a > system which would combine for example Matlab, MacSyma and the knowledge > in some of the modeling packages. This system could (perhaps) be most efficiently > used in the modeling area. > I believe there is a piece of software under developement here at UNM at least tries to be what you are looking for. I have had no expierience with it, but I have heard that it is gaining quite a bit of attention in the computer science field. I will include one of their canned ad blurbs that is available at the ftp site pprg.eece.unm.edu ( anonymous of course). What is Khoros 1.0 (Patch 2)? Khoros is an integrated software development environ- ment for information processing and visualization, based on X11R4. Khoros components include a visual programming language, code generators for extending the visual language and adding new application packages to the system, an interactive user interface editor, interactive image display programs, surface visualization, an extensive library of image processing, numerical analysis and signal processing routines, and 2D/3D plotting packages. X applications built using the Khoros User Interface Libraries have built in journal/playback and groupware capabilities. If you have questions, comments or problems of a general nature, mail the Khoros mailing list, khoros@chama.eece.unm.edu. To subscribe to the mailing list, mail to khoros-request@chama..eece.unm.edu. End blurb. I hope this helps it seems to fill many of the requirments that you and several others have asked for... just my $.02 worth. chris chisolm@hydra.unm.edu