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From: mbk@inls1.ucsd.edu (Matt Kennel)
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Subject: Re: Another SBIR, and Ada is still missing in action
Date: 6 Feb 1995 21:43:33 GMT
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Gregory Aharonian (srctran@world.std.com) wrote:
: So for anyone going to the Ada Porkit, ask AJPO why they can't get Ada into the
: DoD SBIR solicitation?  You win the big battles by winning the small battles.

: Greg Aharonian

Do you want Ada to be used for scientific contracts?

Baseline:

Scientists are poor.  We don't have that much money to spend on software.
The money we do have we spend on essentials MATLAB and Maple and Fortran.

Alleviation:

GNU Ada.  But that isn't good enough yet.  We need, at minimum, GNU Ada that
comes with

	***easy to use BLAS and LAPACK bindings ready to go***

as well as ODE integrators and minimization packages.

	
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