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Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered  "too specialized" for scientific use
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"none" <none@none.net> wrote in message news:pan.2010.04.05.20.51.46.20000@none.net...
| On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:19:07 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
|
| Dismissing Algol as ephemeral ignores its influence and continuing usage
| as a base of pseudo-codes. Important numerical libraries were first
| implemented in ALgol,

No, they were first implemented in machine code,
and later rewritten in Algol and FORTRAN.
The numerical procedures of the General Interpretive Programme
were written in machine code, from 1955.

| and later translated to Fortran when Algol's
| momentum faltered.