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From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: should I be interested in ada?
Date: 1999/02/19
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In article <7aingo$orv$2@plug.news.pipex.net>,
  "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
> Perhaps you would care to produce some 'powerful
examples' yourself?
>
> Bear in mind, my original claim was that "there is
> nothing that can be done in Fortran that cannot be done
> in Ada." I didn't say "that cannot be done just as
> neatly" and I didn't mean it. I just meant "that cannot
> also be done _reasonably easily_ in Ada."

Obvious example; a parallel loop with no implied ordering
in the sequence. We once extensively discussed the
following addition to Ada:

   for all J in ... loop ...

with that meaning. Without an extension, there is simply
no "reasonably easy" way to program this in Ada.

(actually I am not sure if Fortran-90 has this extension,
but it is certainly in HPF, and really these days you have
to be talking about both if you are talking state of the
art Fortran).

Doesn't Fortran also have slicing of multi-dimensional
arrays, this is also obviously very painful in Ada.

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