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!news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newspeer1.nwr.nac.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!nntp-peering.plus.net!ptn-nntp-feeder01.plus.net!ptn-nntp-spool02.plus.net!ptn-nntp-spool03.plus.net!ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net!not-for-mail Message-Id: <4472c76b$0$18234$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net> From: Jon Harrop Subject: Re: Ada vs Fortran for scientific applications Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran Followup-To: comp.lang.fortran Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 09:34:37 +0100 References: <44715DED.5050906@cits1.stanford.edu> Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. User-Agent: KNode/0.10.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 9daedb4e.ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net X-Trace: DXC=YE`CN@W:TQeWTAocdSkN_higd3Y`7Rb;nYZmCHj47lfel6nAZGQhVfkmTd\^n4FGGg5PCcS[NJ6 Brooks Moses wrote: > Nasser Abbasi wrote: >> What are the technical language specific reasons why Fortran would be >> selected over Ada? > > In my case? I know Fortran. I don't know Ada. I would be foolish to > attempt to learn a new language while writing a large program that I > needed to rely on. That's a great way to learn a new language. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists/chapter1.html