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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,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: oa@iah.com (Rick Lutowski) Subject: Re: Object-oriented Fortran vs. Ada 95? Date: 1996/02/24 Message-ID: <4gnb7p$1rc@news.onramp.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 140953126 references: <4gf445$gn1@ictpsp10.ictp.trieste.it> <4gajp4$6aj@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <312A5D68.1B7C@escmail.orl.mmc.com> organization: On-Ramp; Individual Internet Connections; Dallas/Ft Worth/Houston, TX USA reply-to: oa@iah.com (Rick Lutowski) newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-02-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Rick Lutowski oa@iah.com 713-332-7281 | | Object Access http://www.iah.com/oa/ 713-554-7617 | | --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- | | The source for Programmer's Reusable Libraries (TM) oa=OO | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+