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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham 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!newshub.sdsu.edu!tethys.csu.net!nntp.csufresno.edu!sn-xt-sjc-02!sn-xt-sjc-09!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!news.supernews.com!nospam From: nospam@see.signature (Richard E Maine) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: Ada vs Fortran for scientific applications Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 11:10:39 -0700 Organization: NASA Dryden Message-ID: <1hfu968.1i5puf26uqbldN%nospam@see.signature> References: <0ugu4e.4i7.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> <%P_cg.155733$eR6.26337@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> User-Agent: MacSOUP/2.7 (Mac OS X version 10.4.6) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4423 comp.lang.fortran:10211 Date: 2006-05-24T11:10:39-07:00 List-Id: Dr. Adrian Wrigley wrote: > It's noteworthy that Ada and Fortran are on convergent > paths (modules, user defined types, templates etc). Yes. On multiple occasions, I have often heard Fortran 77 users misleadingly describe Fortran 90 and subsequent versions as like a cross between Fortran 77 and C. I attribute this description mostly to low breadth of language exposure from people who have not seen much other than those two languages and thus narrowly associate features like structures with C. When I hear this misleading description, the one-sentence version of my reply tends to be "No, Fortran 90 is more like a cross between Fortran 77 and Ada." Like most analogies, that one is far from perfect, but it is about as well as I can do with that few words. -- Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience; email: my first.last at org.domain| experience comes from bad judgment. org: nasa, domain: gov | -- Mark Twain