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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Slices of 2d arrays? +HPF
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Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com> wrote in message news:<3D402036.171C354B@san.rr.com>...

> Another part of the problem is again a lack of libraries, I expect. About 15
> years ago, I had in my hands an ACM publication which was basically 60 or 70
> microfiche foils full of FORTRAN listings of numerical algorithms of all
> kinds. Having this sort of resource at hand for FORTRAN and no such resource
> at hand for Ada is a compelling argument against switching to Ada, methinks.

Doesn't compell me! There is no problem in calling these standard Fortran
library units from an Ada program when this makes sense.