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-Thread: 103376,2b9375ec36b47df4 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!i21g2000yql.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Ada novice Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: books on numerical programming in Ada Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:38:29 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <5833b88b-a61e-4a8d-b4ed-c877f1eac7a1@g35g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> <4c4b35b2$0$2375$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> <4c4c95c4$0$2385$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.11.22.91 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1280151509 11691 127.0.0.1 (26 Jul 2010 13:38:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:38:29 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i21g2000yql.googlegroups.com; posting-host=193.11.22.91; posting-account=Rr9I-QoAAACS-nOzpA-mGxtAlZ46Nb6I User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12573 Date: 2010-07-26T06:38:29-07:00 List-Id: On Jul 25, 9:52=A0pm, "Peter C. Chapin" wrote: > So are you saying that you are looking for a book on numerical methods > that is written by someone who is foremost a software engineer? I can > see your points. > > Peter Yes. A book on numerical methods by a software engineer and a good reference book on numerical analysis is pretty much what an engineer/ scientist other than working in the field of computer science needs. There are many books in other languages with titles such as "Language X for scientists and engineers" but I have yet to find one that reflects good programming practice with software engineering principles. Ada is wonderful in that it allows code re-use in a very elegant way. YC