Re: Any good package for mathematical function in Ada?

[reinert <reinkor@gmail.com>]

mandag 1. juni 2020 12.43.04 UTC+2 skrev Dmitry A. Kazakov følgende:
> On 01/06/2020 01:25, Jerry wrote:
> 
> > If the binary you are linking to is in C or Fortran your job as an Ada programmer isn't too bad but if you have never done it, it will take you a while to figure it out. Just remember that Ada is built to do this. I did a complete thick binding for PLplot a few years ago. It was lot of work to make it Ada-friendly but in large part because I didn't know C. And in a smaller part because it seems that programming in a crappy language spawns crappy programming techniques. Some of the things C programmers do are abominable and not required by the language. Sorry for the OT rant.
> 
> That is true.
> 
> > I really wish Ada had a good binding to at least one of these libraries.
> 
> Yes, but it is a lot of work and maintenance. And with mathematical 
> functions good binding should take advantage of Ada subtypes, e.g. when 
> the documentation says X > 0 and then uses double!
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Dmitry A. Kazakov
> http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

Thanks, I will try it out (on linux)

reinert