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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,88ed72d98e6b3457 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-06 19:13:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!wn11feed!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi_feed4!attbi.com!sccrnsc01.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F82213C.4070009@comcast.net> From: "Robert I. Eachus" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 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 NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.34.139.183 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: sccrnsc01 1065492813 24.34.139.183 (Tue, 07 Oct 2003 02:13:33 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 02:13:33 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 02:13:33 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:357 Date: 2003-10-07T02:13:33+00:00 List-Id: Martin Dowie wrote: >>2) Math/Statistics - Vectors, Matrices, Big number math, Symbolic >>algebra, Stats,.... ... > and http://www.ada-auth.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/AIs/AI-00346.TXT Look at the somewhat humerous (at least I thought so) discussion we had on quintic roots with real coefficients to see just how hard this standards stuff is. The note I posted on BLAS is also worth reading. A good binding to BLAS as part of the standard would mean that users shouldn't have to find a Fortran compiler, run ATLAS on their target hardware, and create the BLAS libraries in Fortran. Just install the "right" version of the math library for your target hardware and go. (Or perhaps use library pragmas.) -- Robert I. Eachus "Quality is the Buddha. Quality is scientific reality. Quality is the goal of Art. It remains to work these concepts into a practical, down-to-earth context, and for this there is nothing more practical or down-to-earth than what I have been talking about all along...the repair of an old motorcycle." -- from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig