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On Sun, 27 Jul 1997 15:25:55 -0400, Viqar Abbasi <viqar@cae.ca> wrote:

> Finally, why isn't there a Standard Math library in Ada?  This seems to
> make many simple applications inherently non-portable.

Ada.Numerics.Generic_Elementary_Functions is a standard math package in
Ada.

Few useful applications require only the functionality of only
predefined packages. Portability is far more dependent on the
application's design than it is on the set of predefined packages.

Jeff Carter  PGP:1024/440FBE21
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