On Thursday, 21 April 2016 at 16:13:31 UTC, Bill Baxter wrote:
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
Nice point about the Fortran, and also about the C++. :)
I'd have to say I'm convinced - if there's a vote about such
module joining Phobos, count me in! :)
But really, when you look at it - the ndslice has made it to the
Phobos, now it's probably natural to have some more extensive use
of it in the standard library. Linear algebra stuff could be
build nicely on top of the ndslice, you agree?
