From: Ted Dennison <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com>
Subject: Re: Object-oriented Fortran vs. Ada 95?
Date: 1996/02/20
Date: 1996-02-20T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <312A5D68.1B7C@escmail.orl.mmc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4fu3vd$t0n@jeeves.usfca.edu
Israel Gale wrote:
>
> In article <4gajp4$6aj@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
> ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig) writes:
>
> > If you compare Fortran 95 with Ada 95, what obstacles to high
> > performance do you see in Ada?
>
> Fortran 95 fits naturally with HPF (High Performance Fortran), a set of
> industry-standard extensions to enable execution in parallel across a
> network. Some Fortran 90/95 compilers already come with HPF. Does Ada
> have a standard parallel dialect?
Yup. The OLD version of Ada has tasking primitives not as a dialect,
but as an integeral part of the language standard. The new version not
only has tasking, but optional support (in one of the standard's
annexes) for distributed programming.
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T.E.D.
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1996-02-19 0:00 ` Object-oriented Fortran vs. Ada 95? Thomas Koenig
1996-02-19 0:00 ` Wclodius
1996-02-20 0:00 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
1996-02-21 0:00 ` Sergio Gelato
1996-02-21 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1996-02-24 0:00 ` The future of Fortran Kent Paul Dolan
1996-02-24 0:00 ` Object-oriented Fortran vs. Ada 95? Rick Lutowski
1996-02-20 0:00 ` Israel Gale
1996-02-20 0:00 ` Steve Lionel
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