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From: Gautier <gautier.demontmollin@maths.unine.ch>
Subject: Re: Is the Ada World Embarrassed by the Defense Industry?
Date: 2000/11/06
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E. Robert Tisdale:

> Ada programmers don't appear to be much interested
> in numerical computing at all.
> I don't think that anyone uses Ada for numerical computing anymore.

I know at least _one_ person who does - and maybe in
an area where there has been no Ada programming at all
(finite elements - CFD). :-)

> There are, at best, only some adapter interfaces
> for numerical libraries written in Fortran and/or C.

Well, where is the problem ? It allows the few Ada programmer
to use debugged Fortran / C libraries, while cutting
their debug time in writing their own code in Ada!

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