From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Any good package for mathematical function in Ada?
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 12:43:02 +0200
Date: 2020-06-01T12:43:02+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rb2m3l$1a2d$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
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On 01/06/2020 01:25, Jerry wrote:
> If the binary you are linking to is in C or Fortran your job as an Ada programmer isn't too bad but if you have never done it, it will take you a while to figure it out. Just remember that Ada is built to do this. I did a complete thick binding for PLplot a few years ago. It was lot of work to make it Ada-friendly but in large part because I didn't know C. And in a smaller part because it seems that programming in a crappy language spawns crappy programming techniques. Some of the things C programmers do are abominable and not required by the language. Sorry for the OT rant.
That is true.
> I really wish Ada had a good binding to at least one of these libraries.
Yes, but it is a lot of work and maintenance. And with mathematical
functions good binding should take advantage of Ada subtypes, e.g. when
the documentation says X > 0 and then uses double!
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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2020-05-31 10:46 Any good package for mathematical function in Ada? reinert
2020-05-31 11:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-06-01 8:17 ` reinert
2020-05-31 23:25 ` Jerry
2020-06-01 8:24 ` reinert
2020-06-01 10:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-06-01 10:48 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2020-06-01 11:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-06-01 11:52 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2020-06-01 13:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-06-02 1:48 ` Jerry
2020-06-05 22:49 ` Randy Brukardt
2020-06-05 22:54 ` Paul Rubin
2020-06-06 7:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-06-06 13:58 ` AdaMagica
2020-06-01 10:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2020-06-02 1:51 ` Jerry
2020-06-03 15:07 ` reinert
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