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From: helbig@man.ac.uk (Phillip Helbig)
Subject: Re: should I be interested in ada?
Date: 1999/02/19
Date: 1999-02-19T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7akhkq$20e$1@probity.mcc.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7ajl7i$e8v$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com

In article <7ajl7i$e8v$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com writes: 

> Obvious example; a parallel loop with no implied ordering
> in the sequence. We once extensively discussed the

> 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).

F95 has the FORALL statement and construct (yes, inspired by HPF).

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

Yes, it does.


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Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-02-14  0:00 should I be interested in ada? Phillip Helbig
1999-02-15  0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-02-23  0:00   ` David Starner
1999-02-15  0:00 ` Gautier
1999-02-16  0:00 ` Ken Thomas
1999-02-17  0:00   ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-18  0:00     ` robert_dewar
1999-02-18  0:00       ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-18  0:00         ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19  0:00           ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-19  0:00             ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19  0:00               ` Phillip Helbig [this message]
1999-02-19  0:00               ` dennison
1999-02-19  0:00                 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-20  0:00                   ` robert_dewar
1999-02-22  0:00                     ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-19  0:00                 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19  0:00                 ` William Clodius
1999-02-19  0:00               ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-20  0:00                 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-22  0:00                   ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-23  0:00                     ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-24  0:00                       ` White rabbit (was: should I be interested in ada?) dennison
1999-02-25  0:00                       ` Alice books " JP Thornley
1999-02-25  0:00                         ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-22  0:00                   ` should I be interested in ada? dennison
1999-02-20  0:00                 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-20  0:00                   ` Steve Doiel
1999-02-19  0:00               ` William Clodius
1999-02-18  0:00         ` Jerry Petrey
1999-02-18  0:00           ` fraser
1999-02-19  0:00             ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-20  0:00               ` fraser
1999-02-18  0:00           ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-18  0:00             ` Joel Seidman
1999-02-18  0:00             ` Dan Nagle
1999-02-18  0:00               ` nabbasi
1999-02-19  0:00               ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-19  0:00                 ` Dan Nagle
1999-02-19  0:00                   ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19  0:00                     ` Dan Nagle
1999-02-19  0:00                     ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-23  0:00                     ` Peter Hermann
1999-02-19  0:00                 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19  0:00                   ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-19  0:00                     ` robert_dewar
1999-02-21  0:00                       ` William Clodius
1999-02-23  0:00                         ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-19  0:00                     ` William Clodius
1999-02-20  0:00                       ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-21  0:00                         ` robert_dewar
1999-02-21  0:00                           ` William Clodius
1999-02-22  0:00                           ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-18  0:00         ` William Clodius
1999-02-18  0:00           ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19  0:00             ` William Clodius
1999-02-19  0:00               ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-20  0:00                 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-22  0:00                   ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-22  0:00                     ` William Clodius
1999-02-23  0:00                     ` robert_dewar
1999-02-23  0:00                       ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-22  0:00                 ` William Clodius
1999-02-23  0:00                   ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-23  0:00                     ` William Clodius
1999-02-25  0:00                       ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-25  0:00                         ` robert_dewar
1999-02-23  0:00               ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-24  0:00                 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-26  0:00                   ` Robert A Duff
1999-02-27  0:00                     ` Semantic info pragmas (was: should I be interested in ada?) Nick Roberts
1999-03-01  0:00                       ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-03-01  0:00                         ` Robert A Duff
1999-02-24  0:00                 ` should I be interested in ada? William Clodius
1999-02-24  0:00               ` William Clodius
1999-02-25  0:00                 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-25  0:00                   ` robert_dewar
1999-02-26  0:00                     ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-18  0:00           ` nabbasi
1999-02-18  0:00             ` robert_dewar
1999-02-18  0:00     ` robert_dewar
1999-02-18  0:00       ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-18  0:00         ` William Clodius
1999-02-18  0:00           ` dennison
1999-02-20  0:00 ` Hartmut H. Schaefer
1999-02-20  0:00   ` bill
1999-02-21  0:00     ` dewar
1999-02-21  0:00   ` dewar
1999-02-22  0:00     ` dennison
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