From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Subject: Re: Array mappings
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 1994 00:03:10 GMT
Date: 1994-12-18T00:03:10+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D0zC5A.H0r@cwi.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3cv7t2$no2@gnat.cs.nyu.edu
In article <3cv7t2$no2@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
> Ada 9X requires this support. Whether that requirement is justified
> remains to be seen.
>
I think this came from suggestions out of the Ada Europe Numerics WG,
strange enough. I think it is a non-issue; but I started with Algol 60,
followed by Algol-68, and only after that came Fortran; and I did think
they did arrays the wrong way. I know that after heavy requests CDC
modified their Algol-68 compiler such that it could handle arrays both
ways. I do not think the feature has been used so very much. The only
time when it is really useful is when you want to interface to the large
base of numerical libraries in Fortran. But as Robert says, C has the
same problem (more actually).
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1994-12-06 13:06 Why don't large companies use Ada? Paige Vinall
1994-12-07 14:15 ` Norman H. Cohen
1994-12-10 20:55 ` Array mappings Michael Feldman
1994-12-13 15:01 ` Norman H. Cohen
1994-12-16 18:55 ` Michael Feldman
1994-12-17 0:43 ` Keith Thompson
1994-12-17 17:17 ` Reaching traditional engineering, was: " Michael Feldman
1994-12-18 1:34 ` Robert Dewar
1994-12-19 2:11 ` Michael Feldman
1994-12-21 16:17 ` Kevin Weise
1994-12-21 13:29 ` David Emery
1994-12-22 2:40 ` Michael Feldman
1994-12-22 10:20 ` Reaching traditional engineering Introspect Technologies
1994-12-22 20:49 ` Richard Riehle
1994-12-23 9:09 ` Peter Hermann
1994-12-27 3:37 ` Reaching traditional engineering, was: Array mappings Richard G. Hash
1994-12-17 20:42 ` Rolf Ebert
1994-12-19 2:19 ` Michael Feldman
1994-12-19 3:46 ` Robert Dewar
1994-12-19 5:53 ` Mark S. Hathaway
1994-12-19 14:27 ` Robert Dewar
1994-12-22 17:08 ` Richard G. Hash
1995-01-03 3:26 ` Fred McCall
1994-12-17 17:41 ` Robert Dewar
1994-12-18 0:03 ` Dik T. Winter [this message]
1994-12-19 2:08 ` Michael Feldman
1994-12-19 2:01 ` Michael Feldman
1994-12-19 3:41 ` Robert Dewar
1994-12-20 3:23 ` Michael Feldman
1994-12-20 14:09 ` Robert Dewar
1994-12-19 19:10 ` Matt Kennel
1994-12-09 2:31 ` Why don't large companies use Ada? Michael Feldman
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