From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b19fa62fdce575f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-19 02:58:44 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!darwin.sura.net!gwu.edu!gwu.edu!not-for-mail From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Array mappings Date: 18 Dec 1994 21:08:34 -0500 Organization: George Washington University Message-ID: <3d2pv2$q0i@felix.seas.gwu.edu> References: <3ckd14$1cqf@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> <3csnqi$3ee@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <3cv7t2$no2@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.164.9.3 Date: 1994-12-18T21:08:34-05:00 List-Id: In article , Dik T. Winter wrote: >I do not think the feature has been used so very much. The only >time when it is really useful is when you want to interface to the large >base of numerical libraries in Fortran. You seem to be saying that interfacing "to the large base of numerical libraries in Fortran" is not important. This seems a bit strange, given that re-using code like this is supposed to be what reuse is about. So what if it's written in Fortran? If it's easy to interface new code to it, that new code might as well be written in Ada. >But as Robert says, C has the >same problem (more actually). Quite true. So how are the newly-converted C programmers doing this? (Could it be that they are being provided with C versions of at least some of that Fortran stuff? Could it be that the C suppliers are really going out to target Fortranners?) I think we are back in the same chicken-and-egg problem. Ada is a small market because Ada is a small market, which guarantees that Ada will always be a small market. Mike Feldman