What it is

CL-Variates is a portable random number generator for Common Lisp.

Common Lisp has random but this can vary for each implementation. CL-Variates provides multiple random number generator that will produce the same numbers regardless of platform. It also includes additional random distributions like poisson, exponential and so forth.

TINAA documentation for CL-Variates is available.

Mailing Lists

• cl-variates-devel: A list for questions, patches, bug reports, announcements and, well, everything.

Where is it

A Darcs repository is available. The command is listed below:

darcs get http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-variates 

CL-Variates is also be ASDF installable. Its CLiki home is right where you'd expect.

There's also a handy gzipped tar file.

What is happening

18 Oct 2007 -- Time flies! Simplified CL-Variates so that it no longer requires CL-MathStats, Metatilities or any other system (yippee for simplification!). Improved internal organization some; brought test suite back to life.

14 Nov 2005 Corrected links; added tarball, etc.

9 Nov 2005 Just getting things set up here.