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=2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,1ec99b0df63ed9ca X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,64c375eca99d686e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: lionel@quark.enet.dec.com (Steve Lionel) Subject: Re: Object-oriented Fortran vs. Ada 95? Date: 1996/02/20 Message-ID: <4gd3s6$2t9@zk2nws.zko.dec.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 140364672 distribution: world references: <4fu3vd$t0n@jeeves.usfca.edu> organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua NH reply-to: lionel@quark.enet.dec.com (Steve Lionel) newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-02-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , 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 -- Steve Lionel Mail: lionel@quark.enet.dec.com Fortran Development WWW: http://www.digital.com/info/slionel.html Digital Equipment Corporation CompuServe: 75263,3001 110 Spit Brook Road, ZKO2-3/N30 Nashua, NH 03062-2698 "Free advice is worth every cent" For information on Digital Fortran 90, see http://www.digital.com/info/hpc/f90/