Which Ada IDE is best for Numerical Analysis?

Which Ada IDE is best for Numerical Analysis?

[Tom]

I know there are many companies which developed Ada IDEs, integrated
development enviroments, what I was wondering is if any of the
companies have IDEs that are preferred by programmers working in
numerical analysis.  To be specific I want information about IDEs
which run on the Windows XP operating system that are under  $1000US. 
I want a site licence for only one computer.

Tom

Re: Which Ada IDE is best for Numerical Analysis?

[Tom]

8f27iw6z@canada.com (Tom) wrote in message news:<97de285c.0409272101.4fe36814@posting.google.com>...
> I know there are many companies which developed Ada IDEs, integrated
> development enviroments, what I was wondering is if any of the
> companies have IDEs that are preferred by programmers working in
> numerical analysis.  To be specific I want information about IDEs
> which run on the Windows XP operating system that are under  $1000US. 
> I want a site licence for only one computer.
> 
> Tom

To be more exact when I say computer I mean a desktop or laptop computer.

Re: Which Ada IDE is best for Numerical Analysis?

[Ludovic Brenta]

Tom writes:
>> development enviroments, what I was wondering is if any of the
>> companies have IDEs that are preferred by programmers working in
>> numerical analysis.  To be specific I want information about IDEs
>> which run on the Windows XP operating system that are under  $1000US. 
>> I want a site licence for only one computer.
>> 
>> Tom
>
> To be more exact when I say computer I mean a desktop or laptop
> computer.

Of course, you specified Windows :)

I am not aware of the requirements that are specific to numerical
analysis as opposed to general-purpose programming, but there are
indeed several IDE's to choose from.  Here are a few links:

GNAT Programming System: http://libre.act-europe.fr/GPS
jGRASP (multi-language):
http://www.eng.auburn.edu/department/cse/research/grasp/

Of course, the mother of all IDEs remains Emacs :)

All these IDEs are independent from the compiler.  You need to get the
compiler separately from http://libre.act-europe.fr/GNAT.

There may be others that I am not aware of.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.

Re: Which Ada IDE is best for Numerical Analysis?

[Jeff C r e e.m]

"Tom" <8f27iw6z@canada.com> wrote in message 
news:97de285c.0409281051.1eb0d1d3@posting.google.com...
> 8f27iw6z@canada.com (Tom) wrote in message 
> news:<97de285c.0409272101.4fe36814@posting.google.com>...
>> I know there are many companies which developed Ada IDEs, integrated
>> development enviroments, what I was wondering is if any of the
>> companies have IDEs that are preferred by programmers working in
>> numerical analysis.  To be specific I want information about IDEs
>> which run on the Windows XP operating system that are under  $1000US.
>> I want a site licence for only one computer.
>>
>> Tom
>
> To be more exact when I say computer I mean a desktop or laptop computer.

Again, I am not sure what the additional IDE requirements are for numerical 
analysis code....

But Aonix now has an Ada/IDE offering built around the Eclipse framework. 

Re: Which Ada IDE is best for Numerical Analysis?

[Ken Thomas]

I use AdaGIDE on Windows for my code development (Finite Elements).

One requirement is the need to link to FORTRAN packages such as BLAS, 
LAPACK. I can do this easily in AdaGIDE.

Ken Thomas


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> "Tom" <8f27iw6z@canada.com> wrote in message 
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>> 8f27iw6z@canada.com (Tom) wrote in message 
>> news:<97de285c.0409272101.4fe36814@posting.google.com>...
>>> I know there are many companies which developed Ada IDEs, integrated
>>> development enviroments, what I was wondering is if any of the
>>> companies have IDEs that are preferred by programmers working in
>>> numerical analysis.  To be specific I want information about IDEs
>>> which run on the Windows XP operating system that are under  $1000US.
>>> I want a site licence for only one computer.
>>>
>>> Tom
>>
>> To be more exact when I say computer I mean a desktop or laptop computer.
>
> Again, I am not sure what the additional IDE requirements are for 
> numerical analysis code....
>
> But Aonix now has an Ada/IDE offering built around the Eclipse framework.
> 

Re: Which Ada IDE is best for Numerical Analysis?

[Gautier]

Ken Thomas:

> I use AdaGIDE on Windows for my code development (Finite Elements).

Great!
We should create an Ada & Finite Elements club (or programmer group)!

> One requirement is the need to link to FORTRAN packages such as BLAS, 
> LAPACK. I can do this easily in AdaGIDE.

And as stated elsewhere it is mostly a question of compiler.
E.g. GNAT provides nice optimizations such as the "-O2" set
and the "-funroll-loops".
________________________________________________________
Gautier  --  http://www.mysunrise.ch/users/gdm/gsoft.htm

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Re: Which Ada IDE is best for Numerical Analysis?

[Tom]

gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com (Gautier) wrote in message news:<17cd177c.0409300621.7ccfbf45@posting.google.com>...
> Ken Thomas:
> 
> > I use AdaGIDE on Windows for my code development (Finite Elements).
> 
> Great!
> We should create an Ada & Finite Elements club (or programmer group)!
> 
> > One requirement is the need to link to FORTRAN packages such as BLAS, 
> > LAPACK. I can do this easily in AdaGIDE.
> 
> And as stated elsewhere it is mostly a question of compiler.
> E.g. GNAT provides nice optimizations such as the "-O2" set
> and the "-funroll-loops".
> ________________________________________________________
> Gautier  --  http://www.mysunrise.ch/users/gdm/gsoft.htm
> 
> NB: For a direct answer, e-mail address on the Web site!

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.

Re: Which Ada IDE is best for Numerical Analysis?

[Phil]

>
>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

Re: Which Ada IDE is best for Numerical Analysis?

[Tom]

> Do they have libraries that are avaible to external programs such as ADA?

Actually, I am trying to find out the same thing I know that ADA is
used by many Engineers, for building planes and trains, therefore
someone probably has already researched of this. It makes sense that
the answer is readily available I just didn't want to hunt for it when
it is common knowledge in certain places.
  
> some statisticil stuff is available as C, such as the general scientfic >library and ada can bind with them.

The problem with C++ is that so many of the mathematical and
statistical functions are in what is called the standard template
library that to get any speed out of C++ you have to write your
programs in unorthodox ways, so I have heard.
 
> wondering whch language/environment you settled on?

I am still data mining, but so far I would probably choose Mathematica
or Maple  for their mathematical and Statistical libraries because
after much research they seem to have most of what I want for a fairly
reasonable price. Because Pure Mathematics is in less demand in
industry than applied Mathematics; I figuired I would get an Ada
package that links with Fortran and C++. Ada sounds like a reasonable
RAD, rapid application development, language.