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: 103376,6609c40f81b32989 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,9bdec20bcc7f3687 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Thread: 101deb,e67cdb1dcad3c668 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,gid8d3408f8c3,gidbda4de328f,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:49:47 -0500 From: cri@tiac.net (Richard Harter) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.pl1 Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered "too specialized" for scientific use Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:49:51 GMT Message-ID: <4c10ebaa.1443358921@text.giganews.com> 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> <4c0a2e36$0$34205$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <4c0b234f$1$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> <4c0bbadb$0$34203$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <4c0cbfba$6$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> <4c0e2545$0$56574$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <4c0f7162$1$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> <4c102ad5$0$56577$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <4c10b912$5$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> <4c10c3fa$0$56577$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-RL5juRTlMx3gW3QyYhSJgjULyk4ZrM7weV8lbIF4f7LVTdEzhWe+zyGS+eHYYT4P8f5GwV9sdCh3+L3!KI8+rQ01CBQutASJjWeiSWGjNVlDj1kOlbz5Ixsb61YMF5ay7EYkzXLLI6vtqaz8vLs= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:12562 comp.lang.fortran:26677 comp.lang.pl1:1587 Date: 2010-06-10T13:49:51+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:52:29 +1000, "robin" wrote: >"Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" wrote in message >news:4c10b912$5$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net... >| In <4c102ad5$0$56577$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net>, on 06/10/2010 >| at 09:59 AM, "robin" said: >| >| >You have no idea what the issue im dispute was, >| >and others have told you so, >| >| You're lying again. In >| <4bba8bf1$0$56418$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> you challenged the >| statement >| >| Important numerical libraries were first >| | implemented in ALgol, >| >| *THAT* is the issue under dispute, and you keep trying to pretend that >| it is something else. > >You really don't have a clue, do you. >That statement is what I claimed was not true. >I presented examples of such that were implemented >before ALGOL came along. > >As well as that, I cited examples of numerical algorithms >that were running on machines years before ALGOL came along. Neither of you clowns are lying; both of you are incompetent readers of ordinary English prose. The statement in question is ambiguous; it can be read as "Some Important numerical libraries were first implemented in ALgol" or "All Important numerical libraries were first implemented in ALgol". He's using the former reading, you the latter. Aren't you a bit old to be playing such silly games? Richard Harter, cri@tiac.net http://home.tiac.net/~cri, http://www.varinoma.com Reality is real; words are real too. However words are not reality.