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: 2002-05-16 17:24:50 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!kibo.news.demon.net!demon!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: Thu, 16 May 2002 10:51:55 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: References: <4519e058.0205150657.3b695758@posting.google.com> <4519e058.0205160543.34b32481@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1021560716 20132 136.170.200.133 (16 May 2002 14:51:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 May 2002 14:51:56 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:24238 Date: 2002-05-16T14:51:56+00:00 List-Id: 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" 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). >