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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,38fc011071df5a27 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-03 15:45:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-fra1.dfn.de!newsfeed.hanau.net!newsfeed.vmunix.org!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!internal-news-hub.cableinet.net!news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X From: Bill Findlay Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: References: <6a90b886.0305262344.1d558079@posting.google.com> <3ED41344.7090105@spam.com> <3ED46D81.FF62C34F@0.0> <3ED46E07.4340CABC@0.0> <3ED4F3FD.A0EF7079@alfred-hilscher.de> <6vWcnTWjF83bD0qjXTWcpA@gbronline.com> <3EDCBDF4.1050900@attbi.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 23:44:48 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.195.75.181 X-Complaints-To: abuse@blueyonder.co.uk X-Trace: news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk 1054680356 80.195.75.181 (Tue, 03 Jun 2003 22:45:56 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 22:45:56 GMT Organization: blueyonder (post doesn't reflect views of blueyonder) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38560 Date: 2003-06-03T23:44:48+01:00 List-Id: On 3/6/03 23:20, in article bebbba07.0306031420.69c20f71@posting.google.com, "Russ" <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> wrote: > I know that Ada is preferable for safety-critical applications, but > based on what you are telling me, it sure seems to be a poor choice > for non-safety-critical simulation with heavy number crunching. Thanks > for clarifying that. I guess C++ is good for something after all, eh? Only if getting results *fast* is more important than getting them *right*. 8-) (And let's not forget that Ada *can* compute the result matrix in-place, just not using the notation you prefer. It's a strange performance-oriented programmer who gives up a factor of 4 for aesthetic reasons.) -- Bill-Findlay chez blue-yonder.co.uk ("-" => "")