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: bda4de328f,e67cdb1dcad3c668 X-Google-Attributes: gidbda4de328f,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!goblin1!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!exi-transit.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!exi-spool.telstra.net!exi-reader.telstra.net!not-for-mail From: "robin" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.pl1 References: <4bb9c72c$0$6990$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> <4bba8bf1$0$56418$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <4bbb2246$8$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> <4bbb5386$0$56422$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <4bbdf5c6$1$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered "too specialized" for scientific use Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:27:58 +1000 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3598 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 Message-ID: <4bc5a413$0$78577$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 149.135.105.107 X-Trace: 1271243796 exi-reader.telstra.net 78577 149.135.105.107:1047 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:10951 comp.lang.fortran:24711 comp.lang.pl1:1250 Date: 2010-04-14T19:27:58+10:00 List-Id: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" wrote in message news:4bbdf5c6$1$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net... | In , on 04/07/2010 | at 08:27 PM, Simon Wright said: | | >Wasn't Ada Augusta's first program an algorithm to compute Fibonacci | >numbers? That would certainly have been in machine code. | | But was it a new algorithm, or merely a transcription of an algorithm that | she already knew? That's irrelevant.