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From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: should I be interested in ada?
Date: 1999/02/18
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In article <36CC3AEA.59E2@lanl.gov>,
  William Clodius <wclodius@lanl.gov> wrote:
> Be aware that easy cases of array assignements in Fortran
> are easilly mapped to sequential code, but that more
> complex cases require temporaries. This is particularly
> true of the FORALL and WHERE constructs, and ELEMENTAL
> functions.

William, since you obviously know this stuff well, I think
it would definitely be instructive for you to give some
examples with explanations of these constructs for the Ada
crowd, some of whom still seem confident that Ada can do
any of this stuff easily :-)

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