Re: Does Ada95 beat FORTRAN?!?

[jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr)]

"Theodore E. Dennison" <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com> writes:
>
>Frankly, as someone who was introduced to Fortran-77 before C, Pacscal, 
>and Ada, I'm not sure what Fortran-77 DOES measure up to. 

 That is easy: C77, Ada77, and Pascal77.  

 Let's not forget that f77's main competitors were a number of languages 
 with interesting features that were not widely available under a variety 
 of systems, and Cobol, which has 229 billion lines of code waiting for 
 the year 2000 to roll around.  ;-) 

 Any comparison should be to f90, which has some of the features 
 mentioned below, complicated by the need for downward compatibility. 

>Fortran-77 code MAY be faster than Ada code, but in my book that really
>doen't make up for the lack of support for dynamic-allocation, strong
>typing, exception handling, concurrency support, generics....

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