Re: Object-oriented Fortran vs. Ada 95?

[lionel@quark.enet.dec.com (Steve Lionel)]

In article <w3l4tsmaq9k.fsf@wind.hpc.pko.dec.com>, gale@wind.hpc.pko.dec.com 
(Israel Gale) writes:
|>Fortran 95 fits naturally with HPF (High Performance Fortran), a set of
|>industry-standard extensions to enable execution in parallel across a
|>network.  Some Fortran 90/95 compilers already come with HPF.  Does Ada
|>have a standard parallel dialect?

Ada has had parallelism since the first iteration of the language, Ada 83.
Indeed, it was the first major language to implement multithread concepts
as a required part of the language.  So in this area it is well ahead of
Fortran and HPF.  Ada's "tasking", however, was not designed with high
performance as a goal but rather distributed processing of small tasks

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