Re: FORTRAN common blocks

[Richard James <raj@ast.man.ac.uk>]

My question was why do people do it?  The question of whether is one to
which I already know the answer.

		Richard James.

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Ricardo Biloti wrote:

> >         One problem I have never been able to resolve - I accept that C is
> > better for systems programming, but why on earth does anyone use it for
> > scientific code?  Can somebody enlighten me?
> >
>
> Obviously, that assertion is a mistake. There are many scientists
> writing scientific code in C. Few examples of scientific tools written
> in C:
>
> Aztec (a parallel iterative library for solving linear systems)
> FFTW
> Gnu Linear Programming Kit
> Gnu Scientific Library
> NAG C Library
> Open Optimization Library
> PETSc, the Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific computation
> Seismic Unix
> SLEPc, the Scalable Library for Eigenvalue Problem computation
> SUNDIALS (SUite of Nonlinear and DIfferential/ALgebraic equation Solvers)
> TAO (Toolkit for Advanced Optimization)
>
> Regards,
> --
> Ricardo Biloti
> Department of Applied Mathematics
> IMECC/UNICAMP
>
>