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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Does Ada need elemental functions to make it suitable for scientific work?
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 09:27:22 +0200
Date: 2012-07-10T09:27:22+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1576iawk6qc1k$.cnnztz5x3piq$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 18c77859-480c-41f5-bb1c-df7ad067f4f3@googlegroups.com

On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 22:22:58 -0700 (PDT), Ada novice wrote:

>> Interesting example... How often do you do need that, frankly ?
> 
> Believe me, for someone who do numerical computations on a daily basis, an
> operation like V**2 is a NECESSITY.

Where is a problem? "**" is a user-definable operator in Ada. Moreover, it
can be overloaded. Provided that V**2 is quite ambiguous. it could mean 

1. inner product
2. cross product
3. matrix: Transpose (V) * V
...

> It's a pity that Ada does not offer such a facility.

Ada does it. Maybe some library X does not, then take Y or extend X. 

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de



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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-09 23:27 Does Ada need elemental functions to make it suitable for scientific work? Nasser M. Abbasi
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2012-07-10  4:22   ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-07-10 14:26     ` Marco
2012-07-10  4:24 ` gautier_niouzes
2012-07-10  5:22   ` Ada novice
2012-07-10  7:27     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2012-07-10  8:06     ` gautier_niouzes
     [not found]     ` <637de084-0e71-4077-a1c5-fc4200cad3cf@googlegroups.com>
2012-07-10  8:39       ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-07-10  8:58         ` Ada novice
2012-07-10  9:07         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-10  9:21           ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-07-10  9:26             ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-07-10  9:50             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-20  1:56             ` Randy Brukardt
2012-07-20 21:49               ` Adam Beneschan
2012-07-12  0:31           ` robin.vowels
2012-07-12  7:12             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-29 13:39               ` Robin Vowels
2012-07-29 14:22                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-29 20:54                   ` glen herrmannsfeldt
     [not found]                     ` <apib1897s56dkultqmfl3emvk1os3tfdak@invalid.netcom.com>
2012-07-30  4:15                       ` glen herrmannsfeldt
     [not found]                         ` <nfhd181tv9u87mcqfb7rgd8lm48ihr9f4r@invalid.netcom.com>
2012-07-31  8:53                           ` MATRIX MULTIPLICATION Robin Vowels
2012-07-31  9:05                             ` Robin Vowels
2012-07-30  0:49                   ` Does Ada need elemental functions to make it suitable for scientific work? Robin Vowels
2012-07-12  0:22         ` robin.vowels
2012-07-20  1:51         ` Randy Brukardt
2012-07-29 13:53           ` Robin Vowels
2012-07-29 15:51             ` J-P. Rosen
2012-07-29 16:07               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-29 20:30                 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-29 20:59                   ` glen herrmannsfeldt
2012-07-29 21:44                   ` J-P. Rosen
2012-07-29 22:54                     ` Simon Wright
2012-07-30  0:53               ` Robin Vowels
2012-07-30  2:20               ` Shmuel Metz
2012-07-10 12:46       ` Brian Drummond
2012-07-10 11:06 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-10 11:59 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-07-10 12:20 ` Brian Drummond
2012-07-10 19:52 ` Ada novice
2012-07-11  8:41   ` gautier_niouzes
2012-07-11  9:42     ` Ken Thomas
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