Re: Which Ada IDE is best for Numerical Analysis?

[8f27iw6z@canada.com (Tom)]

gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com (Gautier) wrote in message news:<17cd177c.0409300621.7ccfbf45@posting.google.com>...
> Ken Thomas:
> 
> > I use AdaGIDE on Windows for my code development (Finite Elements).
> 
> Great!
> We should create an Ada & Finite Elements club (or programmer group)!
> 
> > One requirement is the need to link to FORTRAN packages such as BLAS, 
> > LAPACK. I can do this easily in AdaGIDE.
> 
> And as stated elsewhere it is mostly a question of compiler.
> E.g. GNAT provides nice optimizations such as the "-O2" set
> and the "-funroll-loops".
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From all your responses I am getting the impression that the IDE is of
less importance than the compiler, and a good set of mathematics
libraries.  The compiler must be able to read the mathematics
libraries and from what I have found most of the libraries are either
in Fortran or C++. I was woundering if it is general practice to buy a
commercial package like Mathematica, Maple, Mathcad, or Mathlab to use
as a Mathematics library. Then most of the programs written would be
more of an assemblying of library pieces and less building your own
mathematical libraries.