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beliavsky@aol.com wrote:
> Nasser Abbasi wrote:
> 
>>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.
>>
>>This should show the advantages of using Ada for scientific/numerical
>>applications.
> 
> 
> You cannot do this unless you get the authors of Numerical Recipes on
> board, which would probably be difficult. I think a literal translation
> of their Fortran or C code to Ada could not be posted online without
> their permission.
> 
> The GNU Scientific Library (written in C)
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/ is open source. You could write an
> open source version in Ada.
> 

The problem is that GSL is GPL which is fine if your intent is to "Make 
free software" popular but at times this is in conflict with making "Ada 
  Popular" in some application.  They are probably both worthy goals, 
but pretty much everything I do for Open Source Ada I use GPL + 
linking/generics exception (GMGPL). Any direct translation of the GSL is 
likely to result in the Ada version being pure GPL and thus limit its 
usefulness in some areas.