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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no 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 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: <4dd87pF18ot14U1@individual.net> <447207D6.3010408@cits1.stanford.edu> <4dg101F17acafU1@individual.net> 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: <44730df4$1@news.meer.net> X-Original-Trace: 23 May 2006 06:28:20 -0700, rc.bx9.net Date: 23 May 2006 06:28:20 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.157.152.10 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: newsread1.mlpsca01.us.to.verio.net 1148390907 209.157.152.10 (Tue, 23 May 2006 13:28:27 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 13:28:27 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4365 comp.lang.fortran:10116 Date: 2006-05-23T06:28:20-07:00 List-Id: In article <4dg101F17acafU1@individual.net>, Jan Vorbr�ggen wrote: >If I have a native complex type, the language implementor is free to arrange >the real and imaginary part in memory as he sees fit, Although Fortran does restrict the implementation, so the langauge implementer is not fully free. -- greg