I want to get started on scientific programming on the Mac using Objective-C. I am very familiar with MATLAB which makes it easy to store complex-valued waveform data in vectors and generating plots. I was wondering if there might be a good resource that might compare how you would implement common MATLAB operations (i.e. creating an array of complex values or generating a mesh plot) in an Objective-C/Cocoa environment.
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$\begingroup$ You might want to take a look at interfacing with the Visualization ToolKit (VTK). macresearch.org/…. $\endgroup$– Allan P. Engsig-KarupCommented Dec 17, 2011 at 18:38
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6$\begingroup$ Any particular reason you want to resign from the huge, powerful stack of cross-platform tools for a sake of using an esoteric language built exclusively for making GUIs and working only on a hardware that can't be reasonably used for any serious HPC? $\endgroup$– mbqCommented Dec 17, 2011 at 23:55
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1$\begingroup$ @mbq Maybe to integrate well with an existing xGrid setup? $\endgroup$– FomiteCommented Dec 20, 2011 at 21:36
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I don't know of any Objective-C-specific libraries or frameworks, but there are a large number of libraries written in and available for plain C, and you should be able to use them with Objective-C.
Using C allows you to use PETSc, gsl, LAPACK, and loads of other useful numerical libraries. I would advise against trying to code the matlab routines yourself. Internally, matlab likely uses well-known numerical libraries itself.
If you're looking for numerical libraries in an object-oriented language, you might want to look into using C++, which has Armadillo and Trilinos available.
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if you are completely unfamiliar with C, but are using matlab as your base starting point, i would actually recommend fortran90 over C. the languages are so incredibly similar it is scary (as far as syntax goes at least)
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You may want to look at this series of articles on scientific computing with Cocoa from MacResearch.
