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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com>
Subject: Re: Object-oriented Fortran vs. Ada 95?
Date: 1996/02/20
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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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