I think people misunderstood this quote... The idea is that you may devote a lot of time to developing the 'Best' solution to a problem, but never get to use the solution (because it took so long to get right). On the other hand you can develop a 'good' solution much quicker, and have time to use it. I guess it is a rephrasing of the classic "95% is good enough" rule. In other words I think it is better to have a usable, but imperfect, matrix library soon, rather than a perfect one at some time in the future. Of course this library does not have to be included in the standard libraries, but if it is useful enough and is reasobably clean I don't see why it would not be wanted. LAPACK does not appear to support higher dimensional matrices... is this right? Anyone got any pointers to definitions for transpose and multiply for arbitrary higher dimensional matrices? Keean.
Thursday, June 09, 2005, 8:52:55 PM, you wrote:
KS> (sometimes the best is the enemy of the good!)