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=2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC 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: helbig@man.ac.uk (Phillip Helbig) Subject: Re: should I be interested in ada? Date: 1999/02/19 Message-ID: <7akhkq$20e$1@probity.mcc.ac.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 446180360 References: <7a72e6$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> <7ai4rb$5vn$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7aingo$orv$2@plug.news.pipex.net> <7ajl7i$e8v$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Organization: University of Manchester, NRAL Reply-To: p.helbig@jb.man.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7ajl7i$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. -- Phillip Helbig Email ......... p.helbig@jb.man.ac.uk Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories Tel. ... +44 1477 571 321 (ext. 2635) Jodrell Bank Fax ................ +44 1477 571 618 Macclesfield Telex ................ 36149 JODREL G UK-Cheshire SK11 9DL Web ... http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/~pjh/ My opinions are not necessarily those of NRAL or the University of Manchester.