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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: matrix package with Ada
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Ada novice <posts@gmx.us> writes:

> Looking at all this, I'm tempted to say how silly it is that Ada
> doesn't provide good numerics capabilities. Ada 05 brought a big
> improvement with more vector and matrix operations though it can't
> handle the eigenvalues computation of a non-symmetric matrix. The next
> version of Ada I read will be out in 2 years. I hope that there will
> be better facilities for scientific programming in Ada than there is
> today. Those on the Ada community should be made aware of the need for
> more scientific computing power in Ada.

I think you are too late: the draft for the relevant part of Ada2012 is
at http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/12rm/html/RM-G-3.html. I believe
that the gate closed in November '09.

The issues on Ada2005 are at http://www.ada-auth.org/AI05-SUMMARY.HTML,
none of them ask for extended matrix operations, so no wonder there's no
change.

I know this is a chicken-and-egg thing.