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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,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: 103376,56250291936154a0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) Subject: Re: Where is the elusive jump command? Date: 2000/03/30 Message-ID: <8c065e$8q61@news.cis.okstate.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 604469597 References: <38D771CA.D41AF9B5@port.ac.uk> <8bq7ku$mc8$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38E0E723.C39C392@quadruscorp.com> <8brfm4$4uc$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38E240D1.DB36C983@quadruscorp.com> <38E2333B.2109F2BB@lmtas.lmco.com> <8bu4ek$412$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8bul06$9aa1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <38E396E7.45941282@quadruscorp.com> <20000330.16284896@mis.configured.host> Organization: Oklahoma State University User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (Linux) Reply-To: dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:28:48 GMT, Dan Nagle wrote: >I'm learning Ada, so I won't comment on "type capabilities etc.", but >I think any language I ever saw has a long way to go to catch up with >Fortran's kind mechanism. Which numeric attributes do you think are >present in Ada and not Fortran? Ack. I don't know enough about numerics to argue capabilities, but Fortran's kind mechanism is ugly. Types should not be stored in integers, and REAL(kind=4) is strictly evil. Fortran's arbitrary use of integer constants for types and structures (file IO) is evil. >Does Ada have any loop, branch or assignment statements, which, by >definition, >may be executed in parallel? My reading and exercises haven't shown >them to me yet. Maybe I just haven't gotten to the right chapter... How much hardware is in use where that would make a difference? If I understand how most cheap OS's (Solaris, BeOS, Linux) use the hardware, that low level of parallelization is not possible; you've got to go multitasking to go multiprocessor. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with square brackets. But that's what mathematicians are. -- Dr. Burchard, math professor at OSU