From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 15 00:17:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA07463 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 00:17:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usr04.primenet.com (tlambert@usr04.primenet.com [206.165.6.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA07457 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 00:17:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA17163; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 00:17:32 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199709150717.AAA17163@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: lib/libF77 and lib/libI77 To: jbryant@tfs.net Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 07:17:32 +0000 (GMT) Cc: ksmm@cybercom.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199709150417.XAA07961@argus.tfs.net> from "Jim Bryant" at Sep 14, 97 11:17:38 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > The ANSI/ISO standard for C++ specifies a complex number class. And those > > vector class templates can be tacked together to make a matrix, and... > > and of course, i'll use it when the supported code base is large > enough... as far as the number of lines of fortran dealing with this > stuff: "billions and billions"... Yeah, me too. Who wants to rewrite the code for the relativistically invariant two-particle collisions used to do simulations of pair productions, and for which the physics constraints are applied following the collision to test theories. Oh yeah: at the same time you should convert the code for the reduction of the soloution of 12 Feynman-Dyson diagrams to a set of constraint matrices used by the first code you convereted. Good luck writing code to solve Clifford algebras in C; the original FORTRAN code was written from the output of a Reduce calculation. This type of code desn't tend to exist in C or C++ ...at least until after f2c has been run on it. 8-). Even then it ends up being largely unreadable. 8-(. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.