Since Fortran users are scientists and engineers, most of them lack the training in software engineering and web development, which are necessary to set up an accesible library. Thinking of the era of old mainframe computers, not everyone had a course in numerical analysis or even the opportunity to work with a computer. It would have made sense to pay a professional provide you with the routines needed to solve your computational problem. At the same time new programs (programming languages) such as MATLAB and Octave were developed, to give people access to numerical tools without having to learn Fortran.
Considering the very detailed and informative post by @ivanpribec on the available numerical methods code, I was wondering what considerations have gone into the statistics portion of the proposed Fortran standard library?
imsl fortran numerical library 26
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