http://www.advogato.org/person/kmself/ Advogato blog for kmself en-us mod_virgule Sat, 5 Jul 2008 21:12:42 GMT Fri, 7 Apr 2000 06:26:42 GMT http://www.advogato.org/person/kmself/diary.html?start=0 http://www.advogato.org/person/kmself/diary.html?start=0 I'll start the weblog by announcing the <a href="http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/">Gestalt System</a> project. This is heavily influenced by my many years as a <a href="http://www.sas.com/" >SAS</a> programmer, though it's <em>not</em> "free SAS". GS is seen as being a framework linking together existing data manipulation, analysis, reporting, graphing, and publication tools in an open and extensible framework. Currrent targets are R, Python, MySQL, and Zope. <p> <p>This is actually rather similar in spirit to SAS, which I've taken to calling a state-of-the-art reporting and analytic system -- for 1969. SAS incorporates much from PL/I, the TSO/ISPF editor, and mainframe storage and programming models, though it proprietized the concepts. GS should be seen as taking the best from available, existing tools, but bridging rather than trying to encapsulate them. <p> <p>For more information read the <a href="http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/gestalt_manifesto_full_097.html">Manifesto</a> for which I give much credit to my partner in crime, Tim Churches.