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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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  parent reply	other threads:[~1996-02-20  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <DMpy3E.6Lr@csc.liv.ac.uk>
     [not found] ` <4fu3vd$t0n@jeeves.usfca.edu>
     [not found]   ` <danpop.824601200@rscernix>
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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