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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c4cb2c432feebd9d X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,c4cb2c432feebd9d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid1094ba,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!newspeer1.asbnva01.us.to.verio.net!newsread1.mlpsca01.us.to.verio.net!5cd0c76e!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: Ada vs Fortran for scientific applications References: From: lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl) Organization: a guest of Shadow Island Games X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Originator: lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl) X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rc.bx9.net Message-ID: <447169eb$1@news.meer.net> X-Original-Trace: 22 May 2006 00:36:11 -0700, rc.bx9.net Date: 22 May 2006 00:36:11 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.157.152.10 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: newsread1.mlpsca01.us.to.verio.net 1148283375 209.157.152.10 (Mon, 22 May 2006 07:36:15 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 07:36:15 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4326 comp.lang.fortran:10057 Date: 2006-05-22T00:36:11-07:00 List-Id: In article , Nasser Abbasi wrote: >I like to discuss the technical reasons why Ada is not used as much as >Fortran for scientific and number crunching type applications? I'm not sure that technical reasons are involved in the actual decision making. BTW, cross-posting a question like this often results in poor discussion. -- greg