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Article #1180Re: languages for number crunching
From: John D Mccalpin
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 1990 16:52
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 1990 16:52
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In article <18101@duke.cs.duke.edu>, hsg@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Henry Greenside) writes: >It continues to be frustrating that the ANSI C committees do not listen >to the needs of scientists: no complex, no power notation (**), no >conformant arrays. In article <780@s5.Morgan.COM> amull@Morgan.COM (Andrew P. Mullhaupt) writes: >Try the dPANS for Extended Pascal on for size. The new language >has variable size arrays, complex numbers, and separate compilation. [...] >2. Is there some good reason why people are not more interested >in this language in the US? A good Extended Pascal compiler for >UNIX would be just the thing. Well if my experience is typical, then the reason that there is not more interest in the US is that lots of us have *never heard of it*! Where does one get information on such critters? Documentation? Reviews? Comparisons with Pascal/Modula-2/Modula-3? >The GNU pascal project had adopted this standard for it's language, but >that project got stalled a little while ago. Did it get stalled for technical details or lack of resources? Who has been working on this? >If anybody's got news of a UNIX compiler for Extended Pascal let me know. >Andrew Mullhaupt And please post the info to the net! Perhaps it is not too late for Pascal to make a comeback in the scientific computing fields.... -- John D. McCalpin - mccalpin@vax1.acs.udel.edu mccalpin@delocn.udel.edu mccalpin@scri1.scri.fsu.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!udel!udccvax1!mccalpin From: mccalpin@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (John D Mccalpin) Newsgroups: sci.math.num-analysis,comp.lang.pascal,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: languages for number crunching Summary: Extended Pascal Message-ID: <5857@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> Date: 13 Mar 90 16:52:03 GMT References: <51475@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <18101@duke.cs.duke.edu> <780@s5.Morgan.COM> Reply-To: mccalpin@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (John D Mccalpin) Followup-To: sci.math.num-analysis Organization: College of Marine Studies, Univ. of Delaware Lines: 37