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Re: gsl Development Query
What you've outlined is something much bigger that GSL (i.e. it's not
GSL). GSL is just a collection of routines for numerical computing,
written in C with modern coding conventions.
Maybe a "universal interface/library" of the type you suggest is
worthwhile -- but it would be a different project from GSL.
If you need wrappers for fortran codes they are available in other
places (e.g. Octave's library, NumPy, ...). The idea of GSL is that
wrapping is never completely satisfactory and so it's better to
rewrite things. However much you wrap unreadable fortran, it's still
unreadable fortran.