Re: fyi, small update to Ada LAPACK and BLAS binding

[Ada novice <shai.lesh@gmx.com>]

On Tuesday, July 31, 2012 6:36:53 PM UTC+1, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> 	If AdaCore did include them as part of their standard release, it
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> would mean they'd also have to offer full support for them to their
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> paying clients. In essence, they'd have to take over full maintenance of
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> the packages.

Anyway, the Ada community should really consider whether they still want people to use Ada to do numerical computations. (Newer) languages like Python and F# knows how to motivate people to use them for numerical computations and have good numerical libraries. Ada is perhaps the one language who appeared to be strong in the 80's in the numerical computation domain and a few Ada books were out there in this field. As from the 1990's, though the Ada standards are adding new features for scientific computation, people do not seem to have interest for them.

What good is a language for numerical computation if there is no proper support for libraries like Lapack/blas? Good that people like Nasser exists. He is to be commended for his efforts.

YC