From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c4cb2c432feebd9d X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,c4cb2c432feebd9d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid1094ba,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!news-east.rr.com!news-wrt-01.rdc-nyc.rr.com!news-feed-01.rdc-nyc.rr.com!news.rr.com!news-out.nyc.rr.com!news-wrt-01.rdc-nyc.rr.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Reply-To: "Michael Metcalf" From: "Michael Metcalf" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran References: Subject: Re: Ada vs Fortran for scientific applications X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response Message-ID: <%zEcg.13$ci.10@news-wrt-01.rdc-nyc.rr.com> Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 14:00:27 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.193.60.119 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: news-wrt-01.rdc-nyc.rr.com 1148392827 24.193.60.119 (Tue, 23 May 2006 10:00:27 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 10:00:27 EDT Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4367 comp.lang.fortran:10118 Date: 2006-05-23T14:00:27+00:00 List-Id: "Nasser Abbasi" wrote in message news:YaEcg.91032$dW3.74205@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com... >I personally think that one way to make Ada popular for scientific use is >to publish a version of the Numerical recipes book in Ada. > > I have been waiting for this for long time. > > This should show the advantages of using Ada for scientific/numerical > applications. > > If we can have the numerical recipes book in C,C++,Pascal, F77 and F90 for > crying out loud, why can't we have it in Ada? > Probably because none of the NR team knows Ada, or maybe the market is not judged to be that large. The suggestion to do a f90 version fell on fertile ground because a) f90 was clearly better than f77 and b) one of the team was already heavily involved in Thinking Machines' version Fortran, which was quite close to the f90 array language. In the right place at the right time. Regards, Mike Metcalf