Re: matrix package with Ada

["Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>]

On 7/25/2010 11:33 AM, Ada novice wrote:
> On Jul 20, 12:34 am, "Randy Brukardt"<ra...@rrsoftware.com>  wrote:

>
> This can mean that people are still not much aware of Ada as a very
> good and robust language for scientific programming.

It does not matter how good Ada is for  scientific programming.

2 things are needed for success here:

1. Thousands of ready to use mathematical/numerical functions out of the 
box.
2. Easy to use graphic interface for displaying of numerical results 
(plots, histograms, etc...)

Ada has neither of the above.

When it comes to scientific programming, Ada is like a very good cook 
who has no kitchen and no ingredients to make a dinner.

> If we look at
> recent publications, how many books discuss scientific computations
> from the view of Ada, how many from the view say C++? For Ada, the sad
> new is that we have practically no recent publication. There were
> strong interest in the 1980s...e.g. the book Scientific Ada and
> Applied Ada. What happened after that?
>

There was strong interest in Ada in the 1980's period.  This was clearly 
because of the mandate to use Ada on defense software projects.

Most people who use Ada these days are not interested in scientific 
programming, but more in system and other type of low level programming.

--Nasser