NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/unix/aix/11680

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From: [e-mail] (Tim Burns)
Subject: essl man pages
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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 16:41:00 GMT
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Excuse me if this is a frequently-spit flame, but there doesn't seem to
be any discussion of this sort on the comp.unix.aix right now.  I was
disturbed to find out that IBM does not have any "man" pages for ESSL.
This is absolutely inexcusable.  First of all, it would be a relatively
simple thing to convert the reference manuals to man format.  Second,
since you don't have the source code, you can't look in the comments to find
which parameters to pass to the library.  Other numerical packages, like
LAPACK, for instance, have extensive man pages on each of their subroutines,
AND THEY ARE FREE!  I think that the Kingston people need to wake up and
realize that we are no longer living in the 1950s and that the MVS approach
to scientific computing is completely unacceptable to modern users.

This flame is my own and does not represent my employers opinion.


--
  *__T__*     Even the most brilliant scientific discoveries will in time
    _i_       change and perhaps grow obsolete, as new scientific mani-
   */m\*      festations emerge.  But Art is eternal; for it reveals the
              inner landscape which is the soul of man.  --Martha Graham