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Re: Multivariate random number generators
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 06:57:09PM +0000, Brian Gough wrote:
> Przemyslaw Sliwa writes:
> > By the way: what is the problem to put the complete MS Visual build
> > on the webpage? I have managed to compile the library, it was
> > straightforward to me but other people have lots of problems and
> > this topic appears very often on the list.
>
> My tolerance for dealing with Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Visual
> C++ has been completely used up. Clint Whaley, the author of ATLAS,
> describes the phenomenon on his site:
> http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/faq.html#utone
I agree/support Clint/Brian. This is a cultural divide between
Windows users and all free software projects, not just atlas/gsl.
I suppose ESR probably has an anthropological analysis of it
somewhere.
--linas