Re: Which Ada IDE is best for Numerical Analysis?

[Phil <philwebb@nospam.radiolink.net>]

>
>From all your responses I am getting the impression that the IDE is of
>less importance than the compiler, and a good set of mathematics
>libraries.  The compiler must be able to read the mathematics
>libraries and from what I have found most of the libraries are either
>in Fortran or C++. I was woundering if it is general practice to buy a
>commercial package like Mathematica, Maple, Mathcad, or Mathlab to use
>as a Mathematics library. Then most of the programs written would be
>more of an assemblying of library pieces and less building your own
>mathematical libraries.

These programs "Mathematica, Maple, Mathcad, or Mathlab" - i thought
these were programing environments that are functional environments
and hence well suited to numerical analysis, that would have libraries
too.???
I have never used them. Do they have libraries that are avaible to
external programs such as ADA?

I am doing a card game simulaton.  I chose ADA because i wanted the
strong checking and I had some familiarity.  some statisticil stuff is
vailable as C, such as the  general scientfic library and ada can bind
with them. 


I Also  knew how to go about the problem in a procedual language like
ADA. never used purely functional language except on Gate arrays, I
might wait until i have a functional computer before tryng to use a
functional language.

wondering whch language/environment you settled on?

Phil