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=2.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID, PLING_QUERY,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9c6cb042c6c5955f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: busigin@ibm.net Subject: Re: Does Ada95 beat FORTRAN?!? Date: 1996/04/21 Message-ID: <4lc9j5$1jeo@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 150582741 references: <00001a73+00002ce8@msn.com> <317906B6.42853EF6@cpmx.saic.com> reply-to: busigin@ibm.net newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-04-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In <317906B6.42853EF6@cpmx.saic.com>, "Linh C. Nguyen" 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