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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,304c86061dc69dba X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,304c86061dc69dba X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: f5d71,304c86061dc69dba X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-02-10 18:19:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: msg1825@yahoo.com (MSG) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language) Date: 10 Feb 2004 18:19:13 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <54759e7e.0402101819.95cec1d@posting.google.com> References: <20040206174017.7E84F4C4114@lovelace.ada-france.org> <54759e7e.0402071124.322ea376@posting.google.com> <2460735.u7KiuvdgQP@linux1.krischik.com> <54759e7e.0402081525.50c7adae@posting.google.com> <54759e7e.0402091826.2847e0c@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 156.111.84.180 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1076465954 25919 127.0.0.1 (11 Feb 2004 02:19:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 02:19:14 +0000 (UTC) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5414 comp.lang.c:21768 comp.lang.c++:18610 comp.lang.java:2847 Date: 2004-02-10T18:19:13-08:00 List-Id: Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote in message news:... > On 9 Feb 2004 18:26:33 -0800, msg1825@yahoo.com (MSG) wrote: > > > >1. no real time [...] > >2. bugs welcome (but not wrong results) - lusers will not come near my > >programs [...] > It is easy to write a virus program scanning your source codes and > randomly sowing them with bugs, if you so enjoy them... What I meant was of course that I don't place as much emphasis on these as, say, Boeing does, and so all other factors in language choice become relatively more important to me. > >3. performance is highly important > > GNAT is a front end of GNU C... Can you write (*) a matrix multiplication routine in Ada, compile it with GNAT and measure the number CPU cycles per FLOP, compare to a similar routine in C? The shootout seems to put GNAT closer to Perl and Java than to C/C++. Cheers, MSG (*) Only if you think the one on the shootout page is inadequate.