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Subject: Re: Ada vs Fortran for scientific applications
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Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 16:41:42 GMT
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On 2006-05-22 13:20:40 -0300, "Nasser Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> said:

> 
> "Dan Nagle" <dannagle@verizon.net> wrote in message 
> news:tHkcg.6937$kR6.484@trnddc05...
> 
>>> 11) Operators on any types, including arrays. Define a matrix product as "*"...
>> 
>> How is Ada's operators for types better or worse than Fortran's?
>> Is Ada's "*" operator better than Fortran's matmul()?
>> 
> 
> I'll answer the easy one for now since I have not had my coffee yet:
> 
> It is clear that
> 
>                            A*B

But the Hadamard product is not the same as a matrix product.

Conventions and understandability do matter.

> is easier to read and understand than
> 
>                     MATMUL(A,B)
> 
> would you not agree?
> 
>> 
>> "Fortran" /= "FORTRAN 77"  ;-)
>> 
> 
> Yes :), I was surprised to read that now FORTRAN is called Fortran, 
> (only one letter is uppercase). This is progress (I think).
> 
> Nasser
> 
>