Re: Standard Library Interest?

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

I don't like bindings.

For most of the things I'd be likely to do in "real work" that involved 
math, I'd need native Ada source that I could embed. For all the rest of 
the things I'd likely do that might involve math, I'd merely *want* Ada 
source I could embed. I refuse to maintain two environments (One to 
compile some math library and the other to compile the Ada that bound to 
it. Where does that end?)

Also, the fact that libraries exist in no way changes my original 
request: That there be a *standard* Ada library shipped with most 
compilers and outside of the ARM so that it can be easily extended. I 
don't want to go grabbing this piece of code from here, that piece of 
code from there, some other piece from somewhere else, cobble it all 
together, hope it compiles and works, deal with inconsistent interfaces, 
a mixed bag of quality, little/no documentation, mixed bag of support, 
etc. I want *ONE* consistent library that is relatively common with all 
Ada compilers. "One Stop Shopping" ought to be the goal along with "It 
works right out of the box" and "They all look the same."

Or I could just go get Java or C++ and utilize whatever I can get from 
there... :-)

MDC


Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com> wrote:
> : 
> : 2) Math/Statistics - Vectors, Matrices, Big number math, Symbolic 
> : algebra, Stats,....
> 
> Have you tried the BLAS binding by Duncan Sands?
> 
> 
> Georg


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