[petsc-dev] installing external packages as shared?

[Barry Smith]

On Sep 8, 2014, at 7:40 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:

> Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>>  One of the reasons I am going through a large reorg of —download now
>>  is to see what can be done to make it less PETSc centric without
>>  making it a complete packaging system.
> 
> Can you make a programming language for numerical computing without
> making it Turing complete?  See also,
> 
>  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

   Remember I learned scheme before you were in bearskins and it still hasn’t proved practical :-(