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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6609c40f81b32989 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!198.186.194.249.MISMATCH!transit3.readnews.com!textspool1.readnews.com!news-out.readnews.com!postnews7.readnews.com!not-for-mail Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:08:55 +0100 From: Denis McMahon Reply-To: denis.m.f.mcmahon@googlemail.co.uk Organization: Denis McMahon User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100317) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered "too specialized" for scientific use References: <1jgf8mb.1wtzpqi19npchdN%csampson@inetworld.net> In-Reply-To: <1jgf8mb.1wtzpqi19npchdN%csampson@inetworld.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <4bbce675$0$25035$bed64819@gradwell.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: e077a0fc.gradwell.net X-Trace: DXC=2]NYQQLa1XE7LfE0P3nBAM@lWf8?fSK:AjS@R6]oDiIObk]YkRh47iG1agI8X=ES=AoUDYm:]i26@bnD8:jT6iEIgB>LE0M?>;F X-Complaints-To: abuse@gradwellnet Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:10891 Date: 2010-04-07T21:08:55+01:00 List-Id: Charles H. Sampson wrote: > Has anyone written a paper "Ada for Scientific Programming"? I > envision such a paper as having all of the tasking-related stuff > stripped out and a heavy emphasis on the numerical issues. Probably the > distributed programming stuff could be eliminated too; I'm not sure. A > Paul Hilfinger comes to mind. A few years ago, as a scientist, I used and programmed for a complex physical simulation system written mostly in ada, but with some modules written in other languages (mainly old fortran or pascal models of physical systems that was interfaced to the simulation system). Ada is IMO quite suitable for scientific applications. Rgds Denis McMahon