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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2cfb9497fbc094e5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-07 10:20:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: tatebll@aol.com (Bill Tate) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Recommendations:GIS program in Ada Date: 7 Sep 2002 10:20:03 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.12.96.106 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1031419203 10346 127.0.0.1 (7 Sep 2002 17:20:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Sep 2002 17:20:03 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28781 Date: 2002-09-07T17:20:03+00:00 List-Id: "Eric G. Miller" wrote in message news:... > Well, I'd be interested to see where you go with the idea. I've > spent a little time working on GRASS (mostly ferreting out obscure bugs > in a hacked up 20+ year old C code base). Part of that experience > has led me to Ada, though I must admit I haven't gone too far with it - > managed to write a line segment intersector and haven't returned to it... Sure - just getting started with the req's definition. GRASS led me to the same conclusion wrt Ada - GIS & Ada seemed to be a really good match. More important to me is being able to maintain the damn thing over time - C++ allows me to get into way too much trouble :>) > Hmmm, must research this Kohonen thing... I would recommend that to anyone including NN's, fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms. Pretty powerful techniques with many practical applications across just about every discipline I can think of.