Re: Object oriented C++ in numerical analysis

From: Gerry Thomas (gfthomas_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 10/01/04 

Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 00:53:16 -0400

"Aardpig" <aardpig@nospam> wrote in message
news:buWdnQBwvfNu4sHcRVn-tw@comcast.com...
> Gerry Thomas wrote:
> > "Peter Spellucci" <spellucci@fb04373.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote
in
> > message news:cjemus$a0k$1@fb04373.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de...
> >
> >>In article <1096468852.988859.208300@k17g2000odb.googlegroups.com>,
> >> mdi00@hotmail.com writes:
> >> >Is there a book of numerical recipes which makes use of object
> >> >oriented programming in C++? The classic "Numerical Recipes in
> >> >C++" hardly makes any use of C++'s OO capabilities, and other
> >> >books I've come across only make very limited use of them.
> >> >Thanks,
> >> >
> >> >Marco
> >> >
> >>
> >>maybe Daoqi Yang: C++ and object oriented numeric computing
> >>springer publisher 2001, ISBN 0-387-98990-0
> >>is of the intended type
> >>hth
> >>peter
> >
> >
> > I endorse Peter's suggestion. Additionally, if you come from a F77
> > background, Yang's book will promote your transition from FORTRAN to
C++
> > for OO numerics. Also, it's equally good at ignoring f90/95/2003, which
add
> > nothing of significance to OO numerics.
> >
>
> Note to the original poster: I'd be cautious about accepting any advice
> from Gerry Thomas, he's malicous, dishonest, and none too bright to
> boot. Hang around c.l.f or s.m.n-a for a while, and you'll see what I
> mean -- pretty much everyone in these ng's detests the pathetic little
> troll...
>
> Aardpig

Read Daoqi Yang book for yourself and form your own judgment instead of
looking to c.l.f.'s cretinious police for propaganda on matters Fortran or
numerics, they being worth less than a pig's turd which is why Fortran has
long been flushed down the toilet 

-- 
You're Welcome,
Gerry T.
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