[Shootout-list] Implicitode test

Brent Fulgham bfulg@pacbell.net
Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:09:27 -0700 (PDT)


--- Sebastien Loisel <sloisel@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Simon,
> 
> Thanks a lot for this implementation, I was dreading
> writing it. I feel guilty for your hardship, I knew 
> this test was difficult to implement in Fortran and 
> many other languages. You have also implemented it 
> better than I would have. Your criticisms are 
> accurate, this is not how I use AD in my real code.

Is this a 'same way' test?  Why can't a Fortran
programmer solve the problem using the normal Fortran
idioms and language features?

I think we may just have a lack of communication on 
this test that has caused Simon to waste a lot of his
time.

-Brent