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From: \x06\x02 ralph@ifr.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de (Ralph Paul)
Subject: Re: Does Ada95 beat FORTRAN?!?
Date: 1996/04/22
Date: 1996-04-22T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4lfr8l$36ju@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 317906B6.42853EF6@cpmx.saic.com

"Linh C. Nguyen" <Linh.C.Nguyen@cpmx.saic.com> wrote:
> 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
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Couldn't disagree more !!

Do you have strong enough personal experience to back this statement ??


Regards,

Ralph Paul

	ralph@ifr.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de 




  parent reply	other threads:[~1996-04-22  0:00 UTC|newest]

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
1996-04-22  0:00   `  [this message]
1996-04-22  0:00 ` Thomas Koenig
1996-04-29  0:00   ` marukka
1996-04-22  0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-04-23  0:00   ` David Kristola
1996-04-23  0:00   ` Jim Carr
1996-04-26  0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-04-29  0:00 ` AdaWorks
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