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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 12:56:51 -0700
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Gautier <gautier@fakeaddress.nil> wrote:

> Nasser Abbasi:
> 
>  > Well, at least one thing is common between Ada and Fortran: Both are
>  > case INSENSITIVE.
> 
> Two other points in common are readability (or, non-cryptic syntax) and
> (Fortran: 77+ ?) full-bracketing (conditional or loop statements
> terminated by END). Both things are extremely helpful for revising code,
> which is crucial for scientific programming, and separate the pre-
> (Pascal, C) and post-1977 compiled languages.

I had also noticed the similarity between Fortran 90 modules and Ada
packages. Not idenical by any means, but there are sure some
similarities.

And the possibility of specifying procedure arguments by keyword instead
of just positionally. You find that in some scripting languages. And you
find things like that in lots of other contexts, including the syntax
typically used to invoke compilers. But in compiled languages, it seems
like the feature is rare; it is shared by Fortran 90 and Ada, and then I
start slowing down a lot in naming compiled languaages in widespread use
that have it.

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