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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3b74366795b5f025 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: How To Compile Ada Prog Interfaced With Fortran Date: 1998/09/23 Message-ID: <1998Sep23.144842.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 394087966 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: eisner.decus.org References: <87ogs6g498.fsf@zaphod.enst.fr> X-Trace: news.decus.org 906576526 8452 KILGALLEN [192.67.173.2] Organization: LJK Software Reply-To: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-09-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , william.oliver@colorado.edu (oliver) writes: > In article <87ogs6g498.fsf@zaphod.enst.fr>, sam@ada.eu.org wrote: >>Or better, put your Fortran objects into a library (let's call it libft.a), >>and add a <> in an Ada package that >>uses that library. >> >> Sam > > This seems to good to be true. Could one use this approach to gain > complete access to LAPACK or to the Numerical Recipes software? Or is this > something that one can do in theory but no one does in practice? I'm > looking into using Ada for numeric programming, but I'm disheartened to > find that there is very little supporting code available. Is this because > it is very easy in Ada to access existing functions in such packages as > LAPACK? Supposedly Ada is devoted to reusing good software. It would be fatuous to adopt an attitude that software cannot be "good" if it was written in another language. This is particularly the case where the nature of the software is the specialty of the other languages, as numerics are to Fortran. Larry Kilgallen