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From: Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered "too specialized" for scientific use
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Ken Thomas expounded in news:3bf0eb74-306c-48c4-b5ab-
858d88b4079d@s9g2000yqa.googlegroups.com:

> However, the recent Ada standards (2005) are very attractive. It is
> possible to interface software from other languages (MPI, Metis,
> UMFPACK) and the tool from gnat g++ -c -fdump-ada-spec ... is quite
> exciting. The containers are also useful. I have used an instaniation
> of Ada.Containers.Ordered_Maps to contain sparse matrices.

Speaking of 2005, I wouldn't mind acquiring a book on
the essential elements of the 2005 features in Ada,
without trudging through dry RM type prose. However,
it seems that these new books are quite pricey,
even used. Normally I can find a suitable deal on
abebooks.com, but have come up empty so far.

There must be a digestable summary on the net somewhere.
Resources?

Warren