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!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 11:18:43 -0500 Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 16:18:41 +0100 From: Martin Dowie User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: Ada vs Fortran for scientific applications References: <44734543.80609@cits1.stanford.edu> <1rPcg.14075$fb2.5282@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net> In-Reply-To: <1rPcg.14075$fb2.5282@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.131.213.54 X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-0eLHus4N7uStFZ0FAXGMWPmcmCvndjnZkyZ5MdcvIQduOTxQZIrFq9URE6s47NEDsHSHfmV3fliF4N9!UgkyluIHTpl02CO0igHDwKkw7J3qk4jgsZPk/LUvMnjcYFpOi0545erSCflBGAmGaYD2dcm+V+4= X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com 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:4498 comp.lang.fortran:10295 Date: 2006-05-26T16:18:41+01:00 List-Id: Nasser Abbasi wrote: > WOW! thanks for the link. I had no idea Ada now supports all these useful > Matrix operations in its libraries. There should be more such functions, but > this is a great start. I have gnat2005, so I'll see if I get a change to try > the solve function and compare it to Matlab's (ofcourse Matlab has much much > more Matrix related functions, but for Ada, this is a great start in the > right direction). Your welcome and yes, a start is all any language standard library can offer - more expansive libraries can always be found for Ultra-specialists but for 99.9% this should be fine. Cheers -- Martin