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,f1da96f850fa2d93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-02-08 18:30:58 PST Path: swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!Starbase.NeoSoft.COM!not-for-mail From: dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Another SBIR, and Ada is still missing in action Date: 8 Feb 1995 20:16:59 -0600 Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 684 5969 Message-ID: <3hbtur$hc6@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> References: <3h6565$2gr@network.ucsd.edu> <3h8k3r$2n1@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: starbase.neosoft.com Date: 1995-02-08T20:16:59-06:00 List-Id: In article <3h8k3r$2n1@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>, Robert Dewar wrote: >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. > >Matt, why not just call Fortran routines directly. GNAT implements both >pragma Import Fortran, to call Fortran routines, and pragma COnvention >FOrtran (to switch the order of subsripts on arrays). Why do you need >special bindings? > How silly, Robert -- that was _exactly_ what Matt was suggesting! Remember, _somebody_ has to take the time to write the binding to BLAS or LAPACK (and the last time I checked, that would take a little bit of somebody's time). All we need is a hardy volunteer -- I'm already doing my share, so don't ask me :-) -- Frustrated with C, C++, Pascal, Fortran? Ada95 _might_ be for you! For all sorts of interesting Ada95 tidbits, run the command: "finger dweller@starbase.neosoft.com | more" (or e-mail with "finger" as subj.)