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Re: It Complies, links, & runs...


Hmmm... Sounds like a gentle way to say no to me. Can't say as I blame 
you, however, the whole reason I am going down this path is because I am 
having so much trouble using CLAPACK's svd. I was hoping a well written 
functional equivalent in a more flexible language than Fortran would be 
easier to use and understand.

Having used your system I have begun to wonder why there hasn't been a 
credible rewrite of LAPACK. Compared to LAPACK, the GSL is much easier 
to use and understand. I was therefore incouraged to note that is was 
fairly easy to go back to my old linear algebra books, read your code, 
and make the adjustments to get it to work with complex numbers. I 
thinking what would happen next was someone would take a look at my 
code, make any necessary minor tweaks and include it (that or tell me I 
was definately not on the right track).

I must say that at this point I am a little depressed. The most common 
comment I got when asking for help on the sci.math.num-analysis was "Why 
aren't you using Fortran?". <sigh>. Waiting another 25 years for the 
last of the Fortran programmers to retire is not an option I am happy about.

Brian Gough wrote:

> Thanks, I've had a look at your complex SVD routine now.  I think that
> is a good exercise, but the comments like "I'm not sure if this needs
> to be conjugated" gave me bad flashbacks to 3-month production runs
> going down the toilet for that reason ;-)
> [snip]


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