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: <7ai4rb$5vn$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 445839842 References: <7a72e6$g55$1@probity.mcc.ac.uk> <36C93BB4.1429@ecs.soton.ac.uk> <7afc1o$3mi$2@plug.news.pipex.net> <7afttr$7v3$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7aganu$qsc$1@plug.news.pipex.net> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x7.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu Feb 18 22:39:39 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-02-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7aganu$qsc$1@plug.news.pipex.net>, > |I find it hard to believe that Nick knows Fortran-90 if > |he writes such a claim. > > I'm afraid I must say that this strikes me as being a > slightly unprofessional comment. May I suggest that > comments as to the lack of knowledgeability of fellow > usenet users are best made with a little greater > caution? Well I would say your examples still don't show anything like the power of the aggregate facilities in Fortran which far outstrip Ada's. If you know Fortran-90, then you know that you can construct examples where the Fortran-90 code is very nice, and the corresponding Ada, especially where multi-dimensional arrays are involved, is very low level and tortured. Your set of examples seem to have been carefully constructed to make the best case for Ada, but any Fortran programmer will be able to demolish such arguments with much more powerful examples. > |It does not help Ada 95 to make bogus claims about it > |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! > > Certainly true. I will endeavour not to make bogus > claims, and hope that others will make a similar effort. All I can say Nick, is that if you really DO know Fortran-90 well, then you really are choosing examples in a biased and unfair manner. I don't think this helps Ada. I actually think my viewpoint that this must be from lack of practical experience with Fortran-90 was a more positive view. If you are really an experienced Fortran-90 programmer, then you should really not be making the claims that you making! > > ------------------------------------- > Nick Roberts > > 'The time has come,' the Walrus said, > 'To talk of many things: > Of shoes--of ships--and sealing wax-- > Of cabbages--and kings-- > And why the sea is boiling hot-- > And whether pigs have wings.' > Lewis Carroll > "Through the Looking Glass" > ------------------------------------- > > -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own