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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada vs Fortran for scientific applications
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On Mon, 22 May 2006 04:54:42 GMT, Nasser Abbasi wrote:

> What are the technical language specific reasons why Fortran would be 
> selected over Ada?

Languages are *never* selected by technical reasons. They are by political
ones.

[...]
> Any thoughts?

Main strength of Ada for scientific applications is in my view its safety.
I am writing a lot for AI and image processing. In both cases debugging is
practically impossible. When something does not work or just looks not
working, how do you know, is it an algorithmic problem or a software bug?
There are techniques which prevent much bugs through a disciplined software
developing process. But these are extremely expensive, require tools,
man-power, requirements analysis, much time, everything poor scientists
usually do not have...

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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