Re: Interested about number crunching in Ada

[Jerry <lanceboyle@qwest.net>]

On Aug 17, 2:21 am, "Nasser Abbasi" <n...@12000.org> wrote:
> Speaking on the subject, Numerical Recipes, considered by some as the
> *reference* for this subject, has releases the 3rd edition of this famous
> work. A huge and large book.
>
> And it is that is written in nothing else but C++ !
>
> Fromhttp://www.nr.com/aboutNR3book.htmlit says:
> "Its code is wholeheartedly object oriented, demonstrating diverse
> techniques for using the full power of C++."
>
> I bet the next version will be Numerical Recipes in Java.
>
> Then after that a Numerical Recipes in C#?
>
> I am waiting for Numerical Recipes in Visual Basic to come out, and may be
> also a version in JavaScript, and why not Numerical Recipes in Perl? :)
>
> I guess the authors found that Fortran is no longer 'popular' enough, and
> C++ is the more sexy language now for selling more copies of the book.
>
> I think a version in Ada will be great, but of course we know that Ada is
> not sexy or popular enough, so I am sure this will never happen.
>
> Nasser

Nice post 8^). The old Fortran version of the book of course had a
Pascal appendix and an associated smaller book dedicated to Pascal. (I
have both.) Recent digging around on the official Numerical Recipes
web site reveals that the later versions of the software were never
made available in Pascal. (I could be partially wrong--was the
original version of Numerical Recipes converted to another flavor of
Pascal other than basically the Jensen and Wirth flavor?)

Anyway, the Pascal-to-Ada converter p2ada is said to have successfully
converted the entire Numerical Recipes into Ada. Look here:

http://homepage.sunrise.ch/mysunrise/gdm/gsoft.htm

Jerry