ANNOUNCE: GENIUS 0.5.0 the "Rising from ashes" release

[George <jirka 5z com>]

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Yes, one of the oldest GNOME projects is back.  The genius calculator,
the original GNOME calculator is back.  Though it is much more then a simple
calculator.  It is programmable has a powerful language and handles many
fun features including matlab like support for matrices.

Genius now requires GNOME2, and a recent enough gmp library.  However you can
still use the command line version if you prefer non-gui interface.  Also it
features a backport of the stack based execution engine from Dr. Genius, and
all the other genius improvements that were in the Dr.Genius fork.

There is still a lot of work required to make this all nice, mostly it needs
to have the function library improved and verified to be correct and
documentation needs to be written (the complete help system is not yet in
place).  Feel free to help out :)

Here are the news in 0.5.0:

* Stack based execution engine, allows much deeper recursion
* User parameters
* Better help support
* Syntax changed to be nicer and/or more matlab like in places
* New operators: !! ./ .\ .* .^ .% .'
* Sum and product loops
* Matrix indexes can now be vectors like in matlab
* Many new functions
* New commands (ls, help, pwd, cd)
* Many random fixes
* And much MUCH more

ftp://ftp.5z.com/pub/genius/

Have fun,

George

-- 
George <jirka 5z com>
   A clever man commits no minor blunders.
                       -- Goethe