Re: Looking for gen symm sparse eigensolver in C or C++

carlos_at_colorado.edu
Date: 03/28/05

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    Victor Eijkhout wrote:
    > <carlos@colorado.edu> wrote:
    >
    > Arpack.
    >
    > > Fortran implementations excluded.
    >
    > I have no idea what language Arpack is written in. Why on earth does
    it
    > matter? Reading Fortran is trivial, and knowing how to link it into a
    C
    > program is something every student around here knows how to do.
    >
    > V.
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    It has to be implemented by a student who is proficient in C and C++.

    Few American undergraduate or graduate students know about Fortran, or
    care. The teaching of Fortran stopped in our College of Engineering in
    1997. (It is still taught in Chemistry and Physics - they are in the
    College of Arts & Science - because of large amounts of legacy code)
    Reason: industry reps in the College EAB convinced faculty that it is a
    waste of time - they say that legacy code still in use can be
    maintained by old timers. Proficiency in C, Java, matlab, idl, labview
    and excel were judged more career helpful.

    I disagreed for sentimental reasons (my first programming languages
    were Fortran II and MAP on a 7094) but there is no fighting reality.

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