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From: Ada novice <shai.lesh@gmx.com>
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Subject: Re: fyi, small update to Ada LAPACK and BLAS binding
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:35:24 -0700 (PDT)
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Date: 2012-07-31T11:35:24-07:00
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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
>=20
> would mean they'd also have to offer full support for them to their
>=20
> paying clients. In essence, they'd have to take over full maintenance of
>=20
> the packages.

Anyway, the Ada community should really consider whether they still want pe=
ople 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 app=
eared to be strong in the 80's in the numerical computation domain and a fe=
w Ada books were out there in this field. As from the 1990's, though the Ad=
a standards are adding new features for scientific computation, people do n=
ot seem to have interest for them.

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

YC