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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 <7ahi79$1rr@drn.newsguy.com>,
  nabbasi@pacbell.net wrote:
> but could'nt all of the above be coded just as well in
> Ada? All what one need is a fortran array-thingy package
> that implement all of those fortran features mentioned.

No, it couldn't, and I don't think anyone with real
practical experience in Fortran-90 would think otherwise.
There are always some things that are more convenient in
language X than in language Y. If you don't know them for
a particular X and Y, it probably just means you don't know
X and Y well enough :-)

However, the mere fact that you can display such examples
does not say anything about the general usability of X and
Y for any particular domain. Focussing on a few specific
constructs almost always gives a distorted view.
>
> It is all just code after all. may be this is another
> package to add to the growing wish-list of packages for
> Ada that everyone  wants, but no one has the time to do

Certainly a GNAT.Fortran_90 package analogous to
GNAT.Spitbol would be useful, but, as in the case of
GNAT.Spitbol, it would NOT provide the same convenience
as the native language, syntax is not completely irrelevant
:-)

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