A Proposal of a Mathematical Roadmap for Scilab DRAFT - Projects

softwares. The author compares various simple and complex problems and how theycan be approached in various languages. This work is done in the context of theNumerical Mathematical Consortium. The analysis addresses some incompatibilityissues within languages and their impact. This work is continued by Alan Edelmanand presented in ”Open Source and Traditional Technical Computing” by AlanEdelman [2].1.7 What not to doIn the past, symbolic computations were perceived as being out of the scope of Scilab,which focuses mainly on numerical computations. Whether this choice should remainin the next years is subject to discussion.TODO : finish that section.1.8 Users feedbackWhat features would users want in the coming years and for what use cases ? Anyonewilling to share his comments is invited to contact the authors of this report.1.9 Methodology used in this documentFor each mathematical problem, we analyze the following points :• what is the current state of Scilab ?• what features are to provide ?• why it fits in Scilab scope ?• is there existing library to connect to Scilab ?• is there a Scilab toolbox providing the feature ?• does Matlab provide an equivalent feature ?Detailed feature requests should be written as ”Scilab Enhancement Proposals”and not in this document.When a library is suggested for connection, we pay attention to at least thefollowing points :• license : is the license authorizes the inclusion in Scilab ?• language : is the language compatible with Scilab ?• mathematical algorithms : is the algorithm efficient, robust, fast, up-to-date ?• documentation : is the library correctly documented with respect to Scilabrequirements ?• tests : is the library tested ?10