From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
Subject: Re: Announce: Grace project site operational
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 10:51:55 -0400
Date: 2002-05-16T14:51:56+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ac0h2c$jl4$1@nh.pace.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4519e058.0205160543.34b32481@posting.google.com
Just a hunch, but I'd bet that if Grace provided a few packages that did
garden variety unit calculations and maybe some general
scientific/engineering math and that all they had were a generic parameter
for the user to specify the floating point type they wanted (and/or fixed,
decimal & integer variations on the theme.) that this would get used quite a
bit. Would developers eschew it in favor of their own strongly-typed custom
packages if these a) existed already and b) were known to be reliable?
I know if I'm reading volts or frequencies or something like this from the
outside world, I'll create a special type to represent it, but if I had to
do some general engineering calculations, I'd convert to some numeric type
of sufficient accuracy & take my chances without distinct types for each
unit. If I had the package already built for me and all I had to do was
instantiate it with the numeric accuracy I wanted? I'd be thrilled that I
got the leverage with a well tested, proven package. If it came with my Ada
compiler rather than having to go dig around for it somewhere? Even better.
"Hey all you engineers & scientists out there! Get rid of your C and Fortran
compilers and write your code in Ada because it already comes with a bunch
of code you need!!!" :-)
There might be better answers out there, but I'd be happy with a sub-optimal
answer that was simple to use & got my job done *today* rather than some
nebulous time in the future when everything is going to be sunshine and
rainbows. But that's just me. :-)
MDC
--
Marin David Condic
Senior Software Engineer
Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com
Enabling the digital revolution
e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com
"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
news:4519e058.0205160543.34b32481@posting.google.com...
>
> Typically not. But a general SI package would have to support all of
> them, because some users might need meters (flight sims) while others
> might need kilometers (space probes).
>
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2002-05-08 2:38 Announce: Grace project site operational Ted Dennison
2002-05-08 2:48 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-05-08 12:46 ` Ted Dennison
2002-05-08 13:33 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-09 19:54 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-05-09 20:22 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-10 14:59 ` Ted Dennison
2002-05-10 18:54 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-05-10 14:17 ` Larry Hazel
2002-05-10 14:46 ` David C. Hoos
2002-05-10 15:38 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-11 14:17 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-11 16:58 ` martin.m.dowie
2002-05-11 18:55 ` William C. Brennan
2002-05-11 20:10 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-12 8:53 ` martin.m.dowie
2002-05-13 13:18 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-13 13:07 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-14 15:18 ` Ted Dennison
2002-05-14 15:45 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-15 19:56 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-05-16 13:44 ` Stephen Leake
2002-05-14 17:02 ` Martin Dowie
2002-05-15 14:57 ` Ted Dennison
2002-05-15 15:31 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-16 21:57 ` tmoran
2002-05-17 1:55 ` tmoran
2002-05-17 13:12 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-18 1:44 ` tmoran
2002-05-15 15:54 ` Martin Dowie
2002-05-15 17:33 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-05-15 17:04 ` David C. Hoos
2002-05-15 22:59 ` tmoran
2002-05-16 13:36 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-16 13:43 ` Ted Dennison
2002-05-16 14:51 ` Marin David Condic [this message]
2002-05-17 15:34 ` Stephen Leake
2002-05-20 13:47 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-21 14:23 ` Stephen Leake
2002-05-21 17:24 ` Ted Dennison
2002-05-21 17:52 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-22 16:20 ` Stephen Leake
2002-05-28 8:22 ` Martin Dowie
2002-05-22 16:16 ` Stephen Leake
2002-05-16 11:06 ` John English
2002-05-16 13:52 ` Stephen Leake
2002-05-16 16:40 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-05-14 17:50 ` tmoran
2002-05-14 18:07 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-14 18:12 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-14 18:52 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-05-15 8:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-05-15 18:30 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-05-16 9:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-05-16 19:42 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-05-17 8:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-05-20 17:08 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-05-21 8:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-05-21 15:57 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-05-22 7:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-05-22 11:40 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-05-22 15:05 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-05-22 16:14 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-05-22 16:31 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-05-23 11:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-05-15 8:44 ` Martin Dowie
2002-05-15 18:15 ` Stephen Leake
2002-05-15 18:39 ` Darren New
2002-05-15 19:34 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-05-15 23:52 ` Darren New
2002-05-16 7:39 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-05-16 15:35 ` Darren New
2002-05-16 17:55 ` Brian Rogoff
2002-05-16 13:35 ` Stephen Leake
2002-05-16 15:50 ` Darren New
2002-05-16 16:28 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-05-17 15:14 ` Stephen Leake
2002-05-17 16:08 ` Darren New
2002-05-17 16:41 ` Fraser Wilson
2002-05-17 16:43 ` Stephen Leake
2002-05-17 16:24 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-17 15:03 ` Fraser Wilson
2002-05-17 15:27 ` Stephen Leake
2002-05-17 16:20 ` Fraser Wilson
2002-05-17 16:46 ` Stephen Leake
2002-05-18 6:14 ` Simon Wright
2002-05-17 15:44 ` Mark Biggar
2002-05-17 16:09 ` Fraser Wilson
2002-05-17 16:48 ` Stephen Leake
2002-05-17 21:11 ` Mark Biggar
2002-05-21 8:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-05-15 19:24 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-05-15 23:33 ` tmoran
2002-05-16 13:48 ` Stephen Leake
2002-05-16 14:39 ` Martin Dowie
2002-05-14 19:10 ` tmoran
2002-05-14 19:58 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-11 19:42 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-05-11 20:16 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-11 19:49 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-05-13 15:44 ` Ted Dennison
2002-05-13 16:16 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-13 17:10 ` Stephen Leake
2002-05-13 19:07 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-13 20:21 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-14 15:00 ` Ted Dennison
2002-05-14 16:00 ` Stephen Leake
2002-05-14 16:30 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-13 19:16 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-05-13 19:19 ` Simon Wright
2002-05-11 1:23 ` Richard Riehle
2002-05-11 12:27 ` Marc A. Criley
2002-05-08 16:12 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-05-08 16:31 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-05-08 17:16 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-09 9:50 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-05-09 13:32 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-09 13:54 ` Ted Dennison
2002-05-09 14:23 ` Mário Amado Alves
2002-05-09 20:02 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-05-09 20:44 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-10 13:06 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-05-10 16:23 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-10 18:57 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-05-10 18:58 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-05-10 8:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-05-10 9:12 ` GRACE web site (was Announce: Grace project site operationa)l David C. Hoos, Sr.
2002-05-10 14:33 ` Ted Dennison
2002-05-10 16:17 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-13 14:07 ` Ted Dennison
2002-05-13 16:04 ` Darren New
2002-05-10 19:00 ` Announce: Grace project site operational Randy Brukardt
2002-05-13 8:10 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-05-10 19:35 ` Ted Dennison
2002-05-13 8:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-05-10 10:25 ` Mário Amado Alves
2002-05-09 20:53 ` Simon Wright
2002-05-10 8:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-05-14 15:03 ` John English
2002-05-15 8:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-05-15 10:38 ` John English
2002-05-15 11:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-05-15 18:10 ` Stephen Leake
2002-05-09 14:03 ` Wes Groleau
2002-05-09 15:38 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-11 18:10 ` William C. Brennan
2002-05-08 22:00 ` Ted Dennison
2002-05-09 5:39 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-05-09 14:21 ` Wes Groleau
2002-05-25 22:03 ` Robert I. Eachus
2002-05-08 14:32 ` Stephen Leake
2002-05-10 14:46 ` Ted Dennison
2002-05-10 7:47 ` fraser
2002-05-10 14:55 ` Ted Dennison
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2002-05-15 9:58 Grein, Christoph
2002-05-15 16:12 ` Ted Dennison
2002-05-15 11:32 Grein, Christoph
2002-05-15 13:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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