From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c4cb2c432feebd9d X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,c4cb2c432feebd9d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid1094ba,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 13:09:15 -0500 Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 11:09:44 -0700 From: glen herrmannsfeldt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: Ada vs Fortran for scientific applications References: <1148396672.074383.27720@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1148396672.074383.27720@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.18.174.4 X-Trace: sv3-X5dIEKY229nyEB/o1PrCB2bKs/XkQr57dbmetoP+bam1HHjLp1rYUQ6U56pjWqTniRcQ21oJYkIRiAd!fvaFWq5h1BH97JOjomFaizncArI57UlWefQiwauGLxEn6SolGNyy7kCixkkjsDCzVpau9Ep7pYro!CEzcUA== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4379 comp.lang.fortran:10142 Date: 2006-05-23T11:09:44-07:00 List-Id: 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. (snip) > 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 rules are complicated and country dependent. On thing, though, you most likely don't want a literal translation, as that likely negates any advantage that Ada might have. If it is not a literal translation then it is likely a different expression of the ideas, and so not infringing on the copyright. You probably can't call it "Numerical Recipes" if that is trademarked, but that is a different question. (You should probably reference NR, though.) As usual, IANAL, but most likely the code could be posted. One would then need to buy the book to get the text to go along with the code, and thus increasing sales of the book. -- glen