Re: Object-oriented Fortran vs. Ada 95?

[oa@iah.com (Rick Lutowski)]

gelato@oort.ap.sissa.it (Sergio Gelato) wrote:
>
>This thread, however, was motivated by the question whether it is appropriate
>to add full-fledged Object-Oriented features to Fortran. Unless there is a
>clear need for OOP in conjunction with the kind of features HPF provides,
>one can still argue "use Ada if you need OOP, Fortran if you need automatic
>parallelism on good old arrays".

These are orthoganal issues; it is not a case of either-or.  If you
have a computationally-oriented problem, you will want "automatic
>parallelism on good old arrays".  If you want ease of maintenance
of your code, you will want certain OO features.  If you want your
computationally-oriented code to be highly maintainable, you will 
want both.  If you want neither, you want C;-)

Yes, there is a need for some (but not all) OO featues in Fortran.

Rick Lutowski
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