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 03:00:30 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 21:19:44 -0500 Organization: George Washington University Message-ID: <3d2qk0$qop@felix.seas.gwu.edu> References: <9412061309.AA02026@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> <3csnqi$3ee@felix.seas.gwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.164.9.3 Date: 1994-12-18T21:19:44-05:00 List-Id: In article , Rolf Ebert wrote: >When I started to work in a thermal engineering lab about 5 years ago, >we all decided to use Ada for our every day programming and for the one >big simulation project. Most of the engineers only had Fortran >experience and had already a lot of code that we wanted reuse by >interfacing from Ada. Finally! A note from someone who was there! >Fortran friendly arrays would have been a big advantage, but Ada failed >for other reasons, too. Some problems were calculating exp(2x) instead >of exp(x) (we lost a whole week on this), not correctly passsing >parameters from the 7th parameter on, etc... Yes, I know these are >compiler issues, but Ada was blamed for it. Certainly they were. I doubt they would've had the energy or money, or inclination, to shop for another, less buggy compiler. Presumably they spent a big chunk of the budget on the buggy one... >Today nobody uses Ada anymore in this lab. They all turned back to >Fortran and C. Deep sigh. I rest my case. An Ada implementer who really cared about this potential market would've delivered compilers that did the right thing for this group of customers. Mike Feldman