	Ruby/NArray  ver 0.5.6 (2001-03-25)	by Masahiro TANAKA

* NArray properties:

  + Fast and easy calculation for large numerical array.
  + Accepting Elements:
    8,16,32 bit integer, single/double float/complex, Ruby Object.
  + Easy extraction/substitution of array subset,
    using assignment with number, range, array index.
  + Operator: +,-,*,/,%,**, etc.
  + FFTW interface.
  + NImage: Image viewer class.
  + Ruby/PGPLOT: Graphics library interface (separately distributed)
     X-Y Graph, Histogram, Contour map, Image map, etc.

* NArray is similar to:

  + Python/NumPy, Perl/PDL, Yorick, IDL 

* NArray is far from completed!

  + Experimental!  Specification may be changed.
  + Far from completed.
  + Bugs may be included.
  + No document.

* Installation

  + If you want to use FFTW, install it.
    http://www.fftw.org/ or http://www.netlib.org/

  + Compile & Install NArray

    ruby extconf.rb
    make
    make site-install
    (or, make install)

* Tested Platform

  Ruby ver 1.6.7
  SunOS 5.7 / gcc 2.95.2

* License

  This program is free software.
  You can distribute/modify this program
  under the same terms as Ruby itself.
  NO WARRANTY.

* Author

    Masahiro TANAKA <masa@ir.isas.ac.jp>
