From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: should I be interested in ada?
Date: 1999/02/17
Date: 1999-02-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7afc1o$3mi$2@plug.news.pipex.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36C93BB4.1429@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Phil,
(You may be aware) there is a Fortran project (Austrian I think) at the
moment which can automatically parallelise Fortran programs. I don't have
the URL, but I'm sure someone in comp.lang.fortran will oblige you. Most
Fortran 90 syntax is supported, I think.
There's no reason this couldn't be done for Ada, in theory, but in practice
I don't think it'll happen. From a speed point of view, this ability could
be of overriding importance.
I'm not au fait with the nitty gritty of this project, however.
Other than this, there's nothing Fortran can do that Ada cannot, and quite a
few things that Ada can do better. It may be, in practice, that sometimes
Fortran compilers can/will produce faster object code, but I think this is,
in every case (or almost), only a matter of practice, rather than a
theoretical limit.
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Nick Roberts
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1999-02-14 0:00 should I be interested in ada? Phillip Helbig
1999-02-15 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-02-23 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-02-15 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-02-16 0:00 ` Ken Thomas
1999-02-17 0:00 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
1999-02-18 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-18 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-18 0:00 ` William Clodius
1999-02-18 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-18 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-18 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-18 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-19 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-20 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-24 0:00 ` White rabbit (was: should I be interested in ada?) dennison
1999-02-25 0:00 ` Alice books " JP Thornley
1999-02-25 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-20 0:00 ` should I be interested in ada? robert_dewar
1999-02-20 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1999-02-19 0:00 ` William Clodius
1999-02-19 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-20 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-19 0:00 ` William Clodius
1999-02-19 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Phillip Helbig
1999-02-18 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey
1999-02-18 0:00 ` fraser
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-20 0:00 ` fraser
1999-02-18 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-18 0:00 ` Dan Nagle
1999-02-18 0:00 ` nabbasi
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-19 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-19 0:00 ` William Clodius
1999-02-20 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-21 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-21 0:00 ` William Clodius
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-19 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-21 0:00 ` William Clodius
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Dan Nagle
1999-02-19 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Dan Nagle
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1999-02-18 0:00 ` Joel Seidman
1999-02-18 0:00 ` William Clodius
1999-02-18 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19 0:00 ` William Clodius
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-20 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-22 0:00 ` William Clodius
1999-02-23 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-22 0:00 ` William Clodius
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-23 0:00 ` William Clodius
1999-02-25 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-24 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-02-27 0:00 ` Semantic info pragmas (was: should I be interested in ada?) Nick Roberts
1999-03-01 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-03-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-02-24 0:00 ` should I be interested in ada? William Clodius
1999-02-24 0:00 ` William Clodius
1999-02-25 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-18 0:00 ` nabbasi
1999-02-18 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-20 0:00 ` Hartmut H. Schaefer
1999-02-20 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-21 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-21 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-22 0:00 ` dennison
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