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=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID, PLING_QUERY 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: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) Subject: Re: Does Ada95 beat FORTRAN?!? Date: 1996/04/23 Message-ID: <4ljp2j$nq9@ds8.scri.fsu.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 151084664 references: <00001a73+00002ce8@msn.com> <317BC833.FF6D5DF@escmail.orl.mmc.com> organization: Supercomputer Computations Research Institute newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-04-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Theodore E. Dennison" 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.... -- James A. Carr | F. Lee Bailey says that http://www.scri.fsu.edu/~jac/ | Tallahassee has a very well run Supercomputer Computations Res. Inst. | Federal correctional facility, Florida State, Tallahassee FL 32306 | but the food is too fatty.