Re: New position: MathLink Developer
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg16884] Re: New position: MathLink Developer
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <v-jkuska>
- Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 02:24:23 -0400
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi Tobias, it is not a good idea to use *any* software without reading the manuals. You have probably never read more than the first 21 pages of "The Mathematica Book". Page 630--674 and 1256--1266 (Reference) of the Mathematica Book, Third Edition by Stephen Wolfram list almost all what you need to write a MathLink program. There are additional documents on MathSource and many many programs. At least you can learn from my source codes at http://www.mpae.gwdg.de/~kuska how to use MathLink. Even for non-standard cases like loopback links, callbacks to the Kernel, own event handling and parallel computing. Several "own" FrontEnds, like Leibniz http://www.athenet.net/~jgregg/Leibniz.html have been written and so it seems to be possible, I had my own for version 2.x (on MathSource) and I will return to a 3. version of it soon. As far as I remember the most questions about MathLink are answered in the news group. But to give a defined answer on has to know - the operating system - the compiler - the Mathematica version only a few people using more than one operating system. The relative high costs of a commercial compiler make it nearly impossible to use more than one or two. So the probability that you find a person that can help you with MathLink on operating system X with compiler Y and Mathematica 2.2+Z is rather small. As long as one has not exactly the same configuration nobody can give you a defined answer. In the most cases a *defined* answer to a MathLink question can be only given when I see a) the source code b) can try a debugging session You can't not realy expect that anyone start with debugging your C-programs! Not at Wolfram Research and not in the Mathematica news-group. You should take a look to other programing news-groups. The answers to questions like "I have a bug, I don't know why, here is a pice of C-code ..." are always vague. Every one that gives a "defined" answer to this kind of question has never used a compiler. Regards Jens tobiasoed at my-dejanews.com wrote: > > [ Clipped from: comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica ] > > In article <7dps5p$dr7 at smc.vnet.net>, > Barb Taub <barb at wolfram.com> wrote: > > > > MATHLINK DEVELOPER: > > MathLink is the communication interface and a key component of > > Mathematica. > > With just one flaw: the documentation, which makes it nearly unusable. > > > MathLink allows Mathematica to communicate with other > > software over various transport protocols such as the Internet. For > > instance the Mathematica frontend > > programmed by Wolfram people who are the only ones to know what to > expect from mathlink > > > uses MathLink to communicate with the > > kernel. We are looking for strong developers to help us expand this > > key technology as we continue to grow our product and our technology. > > give some doc and we will make it grow too. > > > You will be part of a world-class team developing MathLink applications > > and core MathLink technologies. This position requires strong > > cross-platform C/C++ experience. > > [snip] > > Have you ever noticed how most of the posts to this newsgroup concerning > MathLink remain without an answer (or very vague ones) ? Nobody seems to know > how exactly this is to be used when you want to write a new frontend. except > for wolfram people, but they apparently don't want to share. Tobias > > for wolfram people seems > > -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- > http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own