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From: ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig)
Subject: Object-oriented Fortran vs. Ada 95?
Date: 1996/02/19
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[Please not the crosspost to comp.lang.ada and comp.lang.fortran]

In comp.lang.fortran, danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:

>Even if OO features will prove inexpensive to implement, is it worth
>adding features which are irrelevant to (at least) 99% of the Fortran
>user base?

Probably not.

Also, I'm not too sure how much such an OO Fortran would be different
from Ada 95.

If you compare Fortran 95 with Ada 95, what obstacles to high
performance do you see in Ada?  (And please, nobody say anything
about runtime checks this round, that's been beaten to death ;-)