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Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 21:29:04 +0200
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Nasser Abbasi:

> I personally think that one way to make Ada popular for scientific use is to 
> publish a version of the Numerical recipes book in Ada.
> 
> I have been waiting for this for long time.

It won't happen spontaneously...
The best way is to help this happening.
Good news are that, you can translate the whole Pascal version through a recent version 
of P2Ada (it works!); there is some manual rework to make it compile and more to take 
advantage of Ada constructs like unconstrained arrays (instead of arrays with fixed 
dimension in Pascal!), standardized floating-points, I/O or modularity, but it is 
definitely doable.

More, here: http://www.mysunrise.ch/users/gdm/gsoft.htm#p2ada

Good luck!
Gautier
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