On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:26 PM, rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 20/04/2016 7:46 PM, Relja Ljubobratovic wrote: > >> On Wednesday, 20 April 2016 at 06:14:58 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: >> >>> I was thinking std.math.linalg kinda seems like the right place once >>> std.math is split up. >>> There is an isolated one other than gfm.math. gl3n but I don't have >>> permission to relicense to Boost. Its mostly ready unfortunately. >>> >> >> I agree it sounds nice to have linalg package in the standard library. >> Although I'm still not sure about it - I've never seen such package in >> any other language's standard library. I'm not saying it's not right, >> just a bit strange to me. >> > Fortran has some linear algebra functions in the standard library. :-) Java and many other modern languages are pretty much actively hostile to doing numerical computation, so including a linear algebra package in the standard library of those languages would just highlight how bad they are at it. C++ has a tradition of not having a standard library for anything you might actually need to get work done, so I wouldn't follow their example. --bb
