Re: Another SBIR, and Ada is still missing in action

[dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller)]

In article <3h6565$2gr@network.ucsd.edu>,
Matt Kennel <mbk@inls1.ucsd.edu> wrote:
>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.
>
Hehe -- all junior scientists are taught to say that mantra!  That's
cuz they know if they ever said, "Boy, I"m happy with all the
newfangled equipment I've got", their funds would dry up in a minute!
(In reality, some labs are dirt poor, others are rich, but the truth
of the matter is that learning a new language/software tool is a
steep learning curve many scientists are unwilling to take --
especially if it takes away from their research time.)

>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.
>

Amen to that, brother!  Matt, I'm so glad you volunteered to do the
legwork to get this done... [sound of slamming door]...Hey, Matt,
wait, come back!

:-)


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