On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:26 PM, rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:

On 20/04/2016 7:46 PM, Relja Ljubobratovic wrote:

On Wednesday, 20 April 2016 at 06:14:58 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:

I was thinking std.math.linalg kinda seems like the right place once
std.math is split up.
There is an isolated one other than gfm.math. gl3n but I don't have
permission to relicense to Boost. Its mostly ready unfortunately.

I agree it sounds nice to have linalg package in the standard library.
Although I'm still not sure about it - I've never seen such package in
any other language's standard library. I'm not saying it's not right,
just a bit strange to me.

Fortran has some linear algebra functions in the standard library. :-)

Java and many other modern languages are pretty much actively hostile to doing numerical computation,

so including a linear algebra package in the standard library of those languages would just highlight how bad they are at it.

C++ has a tradition of not having a standard library for anything you might actually need to get work done, so I wouldn't follow their example.

--bb