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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Where is the elusive jump command?
Date: 2000/04/15
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In article <38F4F1FF.568BB924@raytheon.com>,
  "Stanley R. Allen" <Stanley_R_Allen-NR@raytheon.com> wrote:

> Not necessarily.  Fortran->Ada is probably simpler than
> Ada->Fortran.


Hard to say, the Fortran semantics of array passing, that
specify the layout of arrays, and essentially require arrays
to be passed as an address with no further typing information
would be VERY hard to map to Ada without going to a horrible
low level.

For example, a Fortran routine that inverts a 2-d matrix can
be called passing it a 1-d or 3-d matrix, or some peculiar
contiguous section thereof.


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