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From:  ralph@ifr.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de (Ralph Paul)
Subject: Re: Does Ada95 beat FORTRAN?!?
Date: 1996/04/22
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organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
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Date: 1996-04-22T00:00:00+00:00
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"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