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On Wednesday, July 4, 2012 1:30:16 PM UTC+1, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> 
> Ada already has some limited build-in API for the above as
> part of its library (solve(), transpose(), etc..).

Yes I know but I do not see any new functions in Ada 2012.

> 
> See my list here:
> http://12000.org/my_notes/lapack_analysis/index.htm

This is very useful indeed.


> 
> There is a lacack 77 binding to Ada. 
> 
> ftp://ftp.cs.kuleuven.be/pub/Ada-Belgium/mirrors/gnu-ada/OLD/contrib/lapack-ada/

Thank you for the link.


> Need to install blas and lapack yourself first. Use Atlas blas.

Is it from http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/ ?

> 
> Will document all that when I have little time, but need
> to fix the test errors I got from the above binding first.
> I was trying to see if I can use Lapack directly from Ada.

This will indeed be very helpful.

 
> btw, Fortran does have many more math build-in functions (called
> intrinsic functions) than Ada does.

Yes I realised that but that doesn't prevent Ada developers from putting some more efforts into next Ada versions.


Thanks
YC