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!news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.germany.com!newsfeed0.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!nntp-peering.plus.net!ptn-nntp-feeder01.plus.net!ptn-nntp-spool01.plus.net!ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net!not-for-mail Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 21:03:21 +0100 From: JA User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: Ada vs Fortran for scientific applications References: <0ugu4e.4i7.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> <%P_cg.155733$eR6.26337@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> <6H9dg.10258$S7.9150@news-server.bigpond.net.au> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <44775f08$0$2663$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net> Organization: Customer of PlusNet plc (http://www.plus.net) NNTP-Posting-Host: 007535d4.ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net X-Trace: DXC=U\CL@_]Ik79d]2CmVTf441igd3Y`7Rb;>YZmCHj47lf5^oZ[2EjkST5_oc8h53JG_>3 Dan Nagle wrote: an example of a Fortran compiler > available today for Windows, MacOSX or Linux that does _not_ > provide a bounds checking option? Most current Fortran compilers cannot detect array bounds errors on assumed size arrays. I doubt that would be true if bounds checking were "part of the language". -- John Appleyard