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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,88ed72d98e6b3457 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-05 11:43:28 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F806630.7050204@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Standard Library Interest? References: <3F803278.1020507@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 18:43:25 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.24.227 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net 1065379405 209.165.24.227 (Sun, 05 Oct 2003 11:43:25 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 11:43:25 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:277 Date: 2003-10-05T18:43:25+00:00 List-Id: 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 wrote: > : > : 2) Math/Statistics - Vectors, Matrices, Big number math, Symbolic > : algebra, Stats,.... > > Have you tried the BLAS binding by Duncan Sands? > > > Georg -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for." --Logan Pearsall Smith ======================================================================