From 185541108712891762 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,b95d4022a0ed849f X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: Valentin Bonnard Subject: Why not other libraries ? (Was: Re: Why not have a standard GUI library?) Date: 1999/09/03 Message-ID: <37CE8B19.17C7@wanadoo.fr>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 520492159 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Approved: Fergus Henderson References: <37C3FE09.B1256377@lmco.com> <37cf9d94.13144501@netnews.worldnet.att.net> <37C6C63D.5C76@wanadoo.fr> <37C7E92D.48454B4E@ihug.co.nz> <37CC0C1A.D65FF303@physik.tu-muenchen.de> X-Original-Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 16:35:05 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news@news.unimelb.edu.au X-Trace: ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au 936336282 24064 128.250.37.153 (3 Sep 1999 05:24:42 GMT) Organization: Ecole normale superieure X-Auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP comp.std.c++ iQBFAgUAN89bj+EDnX0m9pzZAQFEvQF/eXgd7hJnSENalSL7zhWv8arYFA7+BNSt ZhVgZpR34ccKRuhe1VN/NQGWUjeWdkTF =n5mF Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Sep 1999 05:24:42 GMT Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Francis Glassborow wrote: > For example I would very much like to see a standard numerics in C++ > library. Many people would be uninterested. The designers of such a > library need to be experts in the field and probably would not want to > be involved in other work (but having them work as part of WG21 would > be, IMO, beneficial to them and might point the pure language experts at > desirable extensions and future modifications) And most numerical experts aren't C++ experts, even if there are exceptions (Gaby ?), so they need to work with C++ experts (for example committee members) to produce a specification which makes a really a good C++ library, and not just a good numerical library. -- Valentin Bonnard --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://reality.sgi.com/austern_mti/std-c++/faq.html ]