Nice FFT Ada implementation just published by AFIT

Nice FFT Ada implementation just published by AFIT

[Gregory Aharonian]

    In a recent issue of the journal "Computers & Mathematical Applications",
volume 26, no 2, 61-65, 1993, there appears a very nice article titled:

	"Analysis of an Ada based version of Glassman's General N
			Point Fast Fourier Transform

in which three authors from Air Force Institute of Technology supply the
source code to a nice implementation of Glassman's FFT algorithm in Ada,
and report that it executes in a time comparable to Fortran implementations.

   Check it out if you are interested in some good numerical analysis stuff
in Ada.   Can someone from AFIT reading this ask one of the authors (i.e.
Raduenz, Suter or Christensen) to post the source code (68 lines of code)
to comp.lang.ada, so that others can benefit.

   I would also like to point out why the DoD needs an active reuse software
effort along the lines of the Greg Aharonian style, becuase there are many
such pieces of Ada code ranging from a few hundred lines to a few hundred
thousand lines of Ada code available, but that no one knows about or that get
into any of the repositories because no one is doing the equivalent of this
comp.lang.ada posting.  (Though maybe VCOE/SPC plan to spend some of their
$7.5 million reuse dollars training high school teachers how to do this).

   Diatribe aside, it is a nice article with some nice code.
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