Re: Ada vs Fortran for scientific applications
- From: Jeffrey Creem <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 18:38:21 -0400
beliavsky@xxxxxxx wrote:
Nasser Abbasi wrote:
I personally think that one way to make Ada popular for scientific use is to
publish a version of the Numerical recipes book in Ada.
I have been waiting for this for long time.
This should show the advantages of using Ada for scientific/numerical
applications.
You cannot do this unless you get the authors of Numerical Recipes on
board, which would probably be difficult. I think a literal translation
of their Fortran or C code to Ada could not be posted online without
their permission.
The GNU Scientific Library (written in C)
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/ is open source. You could write an
open source version in Ada.
The problem is that GSL is GPL which is fine if your intent is to "Make free software" popular but at times this is in conflict with making "Ada Popular" in some application. They are probably both worthy goals, but pretty much everything I do for Open Source Ada I use GPL + linking/generics exception (GMGPL). Any direct translation of the GSL is likely to result in the Ada version being pure GPL and thus limit its usefulness in some areas.
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