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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fd3a5ba6349a6060 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: should I be interested in ada? Date: 1999/02/18 Message-ID: <7afttr$7v3$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 445539465 References: <7a72e6$g55$1@probity.mcc.ac.uk> <36C93BB4.1429@ecs.soton.ac.uk> <7afc1o$3mi$2@plug.news.pipex.net> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x4.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu Feb 18 02:29:25 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-02-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7afc1o$3mi$2@plug.news.pipex.net>, "Nick Roberts" wrote: > 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. I find it hard to believe that Nick knows Fortran-90 if he writes such a claim. Yes of course all languages are Turing complete, so of course you can do anything in any language, but Fortran-90 has many features not present in Ada. To give just one example, it has a much more sophisticated mechanism for dealing with array aggregates and array aggregate operations. It does not help Ada 95 to make bogus claims about it based on lack of knowledge of languages to which you are comparing it. After all people are always doing this to Ada, don't make the same mistake! -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own