From: Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Does Ada need elemental functions to make it suitable for scientific work?
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 17:53:02 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2012-07-29T17:53:02-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ac93b106-afbd-4212-898a-fc10227a219f@lq16g2000pbb.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jv3m5r$k2k$1@dont-email.me
On Jul 30, 1:51 am, "J-P. Rosen" <ro...@adalog.fr> wrote:
> Le 29/07/2012 15:53, Robin Vowels a écrit :>> Note that in any case the Sin you are calling is not specially known to the
> >> > compiler,
> > but in PL/I and Fortran it is.
>
> Which implies that you can work only with predefined types.
>
> One of the great benefits of Ada (for floating point types) is the
> ability to chose accurracy and range,
Which we can do in PL/I and Fortran.
> and let the compiler find the
> appropriate underlying hardware type.
Which is what happens with PL/I.
> Most machines have more than float and double!
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2012-07-09 23:27 Does Ada need elemental functions to make it suitable for scientific work? Nasser M. Abbasi
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2012-07-10 4:22 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-07-10 14:26 ` Marco
2012-07-10 4:24 ` gautier_niouzes
2012-07-10 5:22 ` Ada novice
2012-07-10 7:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-10 8:06 ` gautier_niouzes
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2012-07-10 8:39 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-07-10 8:58 ` Ada novice
2012-07-10 9:07 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-10 9:21 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-07-10 9:26 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-07-10 9:50 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-20 1:56 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-07-20 21:49 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-07-12 0:31 ` robin.vowels
2012-07-12 7:12 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-29 13:39 ` Robin Vowels
2012-07-29 14:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-29 20:54 ` glen herrmannsfeldt
[not found] ` <apib1897s56dkultqmfl3emvk1os3tfdak@invalid.netcom.com>
2012-07-30 4:15 ` glen herrmannsfeldt
[not found] ` <nfhd181tv9u87mcqfb7rgd8lm48ihr9f4r@invalid.netcom.com>
2012-07-31 8:53 ` MATRIX MULTIPLICATION Robin Vowels
2012-07-31 9:05 ` Robin Vowels
2012-07-30 0:49 ` Does Ada need elemental functions to make it suitable for scientific work? Robin Vowels
2012-07-12 0:22 ` robin.vowels
2012-07-20 1:51 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-07-29 13:53 ` Robin Vowels
2012-07-29 15:51 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-07-29 16:07 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-29 20:30 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-29 20:59 ` glen herrmannsfeldt
2012-07-29 21:44 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-07-29 22:54 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-30 0:53 ` Robin Vowels [this message]
2012-07-30 2:20 ` Shmuel Metz
2012-07-10 12:46 ` Brian Drummond
2012-07-10 11:06 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-10 11:59 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-07-10 12:20 ` Brian Drummond
2012-07-10 19:52 ` Ada novice
2012-07-11 8:41 ` gautier_niouzes
2012-07-11 9:42 ` Ken Thomas
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