From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,df13d6de50be95b7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!h54g2000cwb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: brian.b.mcguinness@lmco.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Binding to the GNU Scientific Library Date: 3 Nov 2006 05:09:49 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1162559389.689389.125610@h54g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> References: <1162369489.160270.248680@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.172.8.12 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1162559394 13581 127.0.0.1 (3 Nov 2006 13:09:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 13:09:54 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: h54g2000cwb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=192.172.8.12; posting-account=R0BKUQwAAAAEH1zhMKQoEzkWfZJu3USj Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:7358 Date: 2006-11-03T05:09:49-08:00 List-Id: Dr. Adrian Wrigley wrote: ... > And the topic impinges on the question of Ada for scientific programming > that was discussed here a few months back. Lack of efficient library > access is a major barrier to use in this application class. It seems to me that instead of having a binding to the library it would be better to translate the library into Ada and make it a generic package for floating point types. That would provide more flexibility, and would probably be more efficient that having to translate back and forth between Ada and C floating point numbers. --- Brian