From: busigin@ibm.net
Subject: Re: Does Ada95 beat FORTRAN?!?
Date: 1996/04/21
Date: 1996-04-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4lc9j5$1jeo@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 317906B6.42853EF6@cpmx.saic.com
In <317906B6.42853EF6@cpmx.saic.com>, "Linh C. Nguyen" <Linh.C.Nguyen@cpmx.saic.com> writes:
>Kenneth Mays wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was interested in replacing a lot of old Fortran-77 code with Ada
>> code. Does anyone feel that Ada95 is
>> better than FORTRAN? Should we replace this old programming language
>> with a better one? Should we
>> RETRAIN the thinking processes of our MBA students that FORTRAN (that
>> great formula translator of 1977) should
>> be maintained but not used for future development?
>>
>> From what we have have seen of Ada95, does it measure up?
>>
>> Ken (kmays@msn.com)
>> USAF
>
>Not by the engineer or scientist's point of view.
>--
>
>Linh.C.Nguyen@cpmx.saic.com
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Sorry, but I disagree. This engineer/scientist suggests that you
seriously consider Ada over Fortran for any new work. Ada is a
far better tool. You can still call your good reliable Fortran libraries
from Ada.
Anthony Busigin
busigin@ibm.net
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-04-20 0:00 Does Ada95 beat FORTRAN?!? Kenneth Mays
1996-04-20 0:00 ` Linh C. Nguyen
1996-04-20 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1996-04-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-22 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-04-22 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-04-21 0:00 ` busigin [this message]
1996-04-22 0:00 `
1996-04-22 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-04-23 0:00 ` David Kristola
1996-04-23 0:00 ` Jim Carr
1996-04-22 0:00 ` Thomas Koenig
1996-04-29 0:00 ` marukka
1996-04-26 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-04-29 0:00 ` AdaWorks
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