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From: "Linh C. Nguyen" <Linh.C.Nguyen@cpmx.saic.com>
Subject: Re: Does Ada95 beat FORTRAN?!?
Date: 1996/04/20
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Date: 1996-04-20T00:00:00+00:00
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Kenneth Mays wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I was interested in replacing a lot of old Fortran-77 code with Ada
> code. Does anyone feel that Ada95 is
> better than FORTRAN? Should we replace this old programming language
> with a better one? Should we
> RETRAIN the thinking processes of our MBA students that FORTRAN (that
> great formula translator of 1977) should
> be maintained but not used for future development?
> 
> From what we have have seen of Ada95, does it measure up?
> 
> Ken (kmays@msn.com)
> USAF

Not by the engineer or scientist's point of view.
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