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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1dd28d5040ded1f8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-13 17:49:29 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!skynet.be!skynet.be!kibo.news.demon.net!demon!btnet-peer0!btnet!psiuk-p2!psiuk-p3!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Announce: Grace project site operational Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 09:18:15 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: References: <3CD88FBD.4070706@telepath.com> <3CD91E31.1060004@telepath.com> <3CDBD673.FF452A3D@otelco.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1021295896 4283 136.170.200.133 (13 May 2002 13:18:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 May 2002 13:18:16 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23986 Date: 2002-05-13T13:18:16+00:00 List-Id: I'd love to see Grace include all sorts of useful mathematical, scientific and engineering packages. (I have some useful business calculations that I keep around for reuse because the formulas aren't hard to build and why not? Its an easy extension to the language.) Wouldn't Ada be much more interesting if it had a whole bunch of common formulaic things around that would appeal to a variety of fields? It isn't hard to dream them up. Statistics, Linear-A, Operations Research, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Rocket Science, etc. etc. etc. Maybe if we came up with a package spec that defined a style for implementing math libraries for problem domains, we could get a bunch of them built rather readily - seeing as how there are lots of Ada enthusiasts who have special domain knowledge & might be willing to contribute? Or is there no consensus that Grace should include things beyond containers? MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com "martin.m.dowie" wrote in message news:t5cD8.853$vb.80665@news8-gui.server.ntli.net... > > In these sorts of cases I would use an 'SI_Units' package (like the > "Whitaker" > one) that provided all the nice conversion for me... > > e.g. function "/" (V : Volts; O : Ohms) return Amps; > > etc > > I find this _very_ convenient and highly reusable. > > Anyone for a 'Grace.SI_Units' package?.. > > >