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brian.b.mcguinness@lmco.com wrote:
> Dr. Adrian Wrigley wrote:
> ...
> 
>>And the topic impinges on the question of Ada for scientific programming
>>that was discussed here a few months back.  Lack of efficient library
>>access is a major barrier to use in this application class.
> 
> 
> It seems to me that instead of having a binding to the library it would
> be better to translate  the library into Ada and make it a generic
> package for floating point types.  That would provide more flexibility,
> and would probably be more efficient that having to translate back and
> forth between Ada and C floating point numbers.
> 
> --- Brian
> 

While it might be nice no have a generic Ada library like this (or even 
a C/C++ one with a license that would be useable by people not 
developing free software - GSL does not fall into that category) it does 
not currently exist so a binding is not a bad thing.