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From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: should I be interested in ada?
Date: 1999/02/17
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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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