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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,9f0bf354542633fd X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d901a50a5adfec3c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Fortran or Ada? Date: 1998/09/22 Message-ID: <1998Sep22.131219.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 393699666 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: eisner.decus.org References: <36068E73.F0398C54@meca.polymtl.ca> X-Trace: news.decus.org 906484344 28976 KILGALLEN [192.67.173.2] Organization: LJK Software Reply-To: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-09-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Jeff Templon writes: > So Ada loses in this respect : there is a lot of language to know. > This makes it more difficult to write programs, unless one invests > the time to learn the language well. This amount of time would > be less for Fortran. Certainly Ada is harder than many language if the goal is to "learn the whole language". However in many cases the goal instead is to "learn what is needed for a particular set of programs". I programmed many years in Ada without using any of the Tasking stuff, because I just did not need it for the set of programs I was working on. In fact, since Fortran does not provide built-in Tasking (so far as I know), most programs that would reasonably be written in Fortran would not make use of Tasking either if they instead were written in Ada. Larry Kilgallen