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From: "Robert I. Eachus" <eachus@mitre.org>
Subject: Re: Ada95 speed
Date: 1999/06/07
Date: 1999-06-07T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <375C14ED.4FA86B39@mitre.org> (raw)

tmoran@bix.com wrote:

> >In those days, I was as big a fan of APL for the kind of work I was doing
> >as I am of Ada today.
> There is more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents ... ;)

   What?  Do you have something against APL?  For certain jobs it is
still the best language around.  I still use it to prototype
algorithms--even when the final implementation is in Ada.  A few years
ago I spent a few days debugging and tuning an algorithm in APL, then
spent several months documenting, implementing, and tuning in Ada.  I
probably could have spent twice as long doing it all in Ada.  There was
a huge amount of algorithmic design required--the problem involved
solving transportation problems on large sparse matrices.  I ended up
demonstrating that the problem could be solved in milliseconds instead
of hours.

-- 

                                        Robert I. Eachus

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Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-06-07  0:00 Robert I. Eachus [this message]
1999-06-07  0:00 ` Ada95 speed tmoran
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1999-06-06  0:00 tmoran
1999-06-06  0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-06-06  0:00   ` tmoran
1999-06-07  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-06  0:00       ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-06-07  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-06  0:00       ` Brian Rogoff
1999-06-06  0:00 tmoran
1999-06-06  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-05  0:00 tmoran
1999-06-05  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-05  0:00   ` Ehud Lamm
1999-06-05  0:00     ` William Starner
1999-06-05  0:00       ` Ehud Lamm
1999-06-05  0:00     ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-06  0:00     ` David Botton
1999-06-06  0:00       ` Ehud Lamm
1999-06-07  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-07  0:00           ` Ehud Lamm
1999-06-05  0:00 tmoran
1999-06-05  0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-06-05  0:00   ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-05-18  0:00 Clifford J. Nelson
1999-05-17  0:00 ` David Starner
1999-05-18  0:00   ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-05-18  0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-05-18  0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-05-18  0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-05-18  0:00   ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-05-20  0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-05-21  0:00   ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-05-21  0:00     ` Tom Moran
1999-05-21  0:00       ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-05-21  0:00         ` Tom Moran
     [not found] <374182F2.B10AD449@Maths.UniNe.CH>
1999-05-18  0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-05-18  0:00   ` Gautier
1999-05-19  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-20  0:00       ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-05-20  0:00         ` Tucker Taft
1999-05-20  0:00           ` Tom Moran
1999-05-20  0:00             ` Tom Moran
1999-05-21  0:00               ` Tom Moran
1999-05-31  0:00         ` James E. Hopper
1999-06-01  0:00           ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-01  0:00             ` James E. Hopper
1999-06-02  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-04  0:00               ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-05  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-01  0:00           ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-01  0:00             ` James E. Hopper
1999-06-02  0:00               ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-04  0:00                 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-02  0:00             ` James E. Hopper
1999-06-02  0:00               ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-02  0:00                 ` James E. Hopper
1999-06-02  0:00                   ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-02  0:00                     ` John B. Matthews, M.D.
1999-06-02  0:00                       ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-02  0:00                     ` Gautier
1999-06-02  0:00                       ` John B. Matthews, M.D.
1999-06-02  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-04  0:00               ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-04  0:00                 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
1999-06-04  0:00                 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-06-03  0:00           ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-05-31  0:00       ` Gautier
1999-05-19  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
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