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Subject: Re: Example Ada calling Gnu Scientific Library (GSL)
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> To me it would be far more difficult because of higher Ada code standards=
.
>=20
> I mean that when writing approximations in Ada the natural goal would be=
=20
> to have the accurate result within the interval of two adjacent machine=
=20
> numbers and also to have generic version for all real types. This is=20
> really hard.

Well... why not having a minimum precision requirement ? something like thi=
s:
generic
  type Real is digits <>;

package Special_functions is
  ...
end Special_functions;

package body Special_functions is
  ...
begin
  ... [raise an exception here if precision is not enough]
end Special_functions;


> When using binding you basically wash your hands and do not care about=20
> quality anymore.

Agreed - some Ada programmers have a double standard, and accept a much low=
er one for the C code used for binding. Sometimes they would complain about=
 formatting of comments in Ada code and and just ignore the mess of some ol=
d "1980's home-computing-like" +/- equivalent C code...
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