Re: Ann: Mathpaqs, release Feb. 2011

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

On 2/21/2011 6:34 PM, Gautier write-only wrote:

>
> So I guess the next question would be: why not using Real_Vector and
> Real_Matrix by default ? My answer would be:
> - you can use the package also with an Ada 95 compiler, even one which
> doesn't yet has been extended with the new 2005 math packages

OK, makes sense.

> - more important: you can use non-trivial matrix types, like band
> matrices or sparse matrices.
>

What packages or binding to which library should one use in Ada
to use sparse matrices?

In Matlab, almost all build-in functions that work with normal matrices,
also work as in with sparse matrices. Makes life very easy.

To solve Ax=b, even when A is sparse, one can still write A\b.

Is it possible to do something like this in Ada? There are number
of sparse libraries out there, but googling around, do not see
an Ada binding at this time.

I think Ada is much behind when it comes to ready to use functions
and libraries for computational science. Too bad, since the language
itself is probably the best for this sort of thing.

thanks,
--Nasser