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From: dirk@vana.cs.kuleuven.be. (Dirk Craeynest)
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Subject: Numerical software in Ada (was: Re: Can Ada be hacked?)
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Summary: See PHCpack for an example of numerical software in Ada
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In article <ikhkr6$hkm$1@speranza.aioe.org>,
Nasser M. Abbasi <nma@12000.org> wrote:
[...]
>Ada, the language is good for computational sciences and
>heavy algorithmic type applications, and there is a strong
>need for more and more of these applications.
[...]
>An open source project in Ada in such a field, would be
>to develop packages for numerical solution of PDE's, packages
>for finite elements, packages for mesh generations, etc...
[...]
>These things take years to do, as numerical software
>is hard, and a correct and optimized one is even harder
>to make.

For an example of numerical software in Ada, which indeed took years
to do, see <http://www.math.uic.edu/~jan/PHCpack/phcpack.html>, by
Jan Verschelde about "PHCpack: a general-purpose solver for polynomial
systems by homotopy continuation".

The software can be downloaded from the same address.

HTH

Dirk
Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/-Europe/SIGAda/WG9 mail)

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