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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Peter Hermann wrote:

> I am unhappy with the fact, that Ada does not gain terrain
> in the realm of high performance computing/fortran (HPF).

I agree that it would be nice to see Ada gain more terrain 
in the realm of high performance computing, but the only 
question I have seen from a beginner in Ada this week, was 
in the area of scientific (and most likely also high 
performance) computing, so things are bad everywhere.

 > Those "customers" seem to be entirely satisfied with their
 > fortran neverending story.

I am not sure that they are aware of any better solutions.

One should also consider the cost of converting a piece of 
software which nobody understands why works (both the Danish 
and the joint European weather forecast systems appear to be 
in this category) to anything else. I do not think it is 
realistic to convert this kind of software, but new 
development in the realms of scientific and high performance 
computing is certainly a worthwhile target for expansion of 
the use of Ada.

Jacob
-- 
Do you have a job for a physicist with experience in:

  * Complex systems (mostly turbulence experiments)
  * Geoscience (a bit of oceanography and geology)
  * Programming (mostly in Ada and Pascal)