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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c1bdceb867926fdb X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!c10g2000yqi.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Ada novice Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Interfacing Ada with C Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:19:11 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <317a22bc-3fff-4036-8945-8a61befab2eb@c10g2000yqi.googlegroups.com> References: <0ee9eec7-6024-4fb8-8df0-f65c146e4b84@i28g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> <143ef70b-7e74-426b-a621-a5fd157849be@x21g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.11.22.91 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1280395151 19206 127.0.0.1 (29 Jul 2010 09:19:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:19:11 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: c10g2000yqi.googlegroups.com; posting-host=193.11.22.91; posting-account=Rr9I-QoAAACS-nOzpA-mGxtAlZ46Nb6I User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12656 Date: 2010-07-29T02:19:11-07:00 List-Id: On Jul 29, 12:26=A0am, Simon Wright wrote: > Simon Wright writes: > > Ada novice writes: > >> On Jul 26, 1:21=A0am, Simon Wright wrote: > > >>> I've encoded a general complex eigenvalues function, interfacing to t= he > >>> LAPACK procedure zgeev > > >> Thank you very much for your commendable efforts. This is a very good > >> example to demonstrate how Ada can be binded with LAPACK. > > > Well, it's a start! > > I've taken the plunge and started a SourceForge project for this. It's > athttp://sourceforge.net/projects/gnat-math-extn/-- under "Ada 2005 > Math Extensions", click on [Develop] then on [Code]. > > I've chosen to use Mercurial (Hg) as the VCS, mainly to get a real-world > feel for using a DVCS (Distributed Version Control System). To downoad > the code, you'll need to install Hg -http://mercurial.selenic.com/- > because I haven't actually made a code release yet! > > If anyone feels moved to join in, just say (of course you need a SF > account to update the SF repository, but with Hg it should be possible > to work via patchsets .. ) > This is great news. I would be happy to join the project. I'm not a programmer as you know :). I'm a mechanical engineer and have a sound background in numerical methods and use them a lot. I would be happy to contribute in testing, feedback and coming up with suggestions. YC