Yes though it was founded by a consortium of UK universities :-)
but its far cheaper (and has less bugs) that paying some one to write your own.
Same reason that writing your own crypto is a bad idea.
but its far cheaper (and has less bugs) that paying some one to write your own.
Same reason that writing your own crypto is a bad idea.
You don't get the large scale parallel libraries from NAG anyway.
We all know what the quality of academic code reputation is.
do 'we'?
considering a huge amount of common numerical software (esp with any kind of fortran lineage whatsoever) is based in some way on netlib.org code that itself was heavily developed in the BSD UNIX on Vax+ARPANET era within the academic/research community, I'm not really sure that, based on this comment, 'we' do..