Re: F9X twister & ADA (was: n-dim'l vectors)

[Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>]

On 6 Apr 2000, Richard Maine wrote:
> In seriousness, those who can't learn to work well with others (including
> some with opposing viewpoints), do not tend to help progress on such
> things - no matter how brilliant they may be.  Offering gratuituous insults
> is not generally a good way to start.  Do you make comments like that to
> the people you work with regularly?  If so, does this help them get their
> jobs done?

I agree that bvoh's comments were very rude. This kind of behavior makes
it difficult to conduct a discussion across newsgroups and to compare 
language features in a way that we can all learn from.

(PS: Yes, I know that a preposition is not something that you are supposed
to end a sentence with. :-)

> Yes, by the way, the committee certainly looked at ADA.  And it shows in
> quite a few places.

That's great. I think Ada and Fortran have some overlap in problem domains 
they are addressing so it is wise to have some idea of how each language 
addresses similar problems so that we can compare solutions. I find such 
language comparisons helpful.

> The elided sample is not, of course, the only way to write the code in
> question.  Nor is it particularly close to the way I'd suggest writing
> it.  I rarely write out interface bodies - that's what modules are for.

I'd be interested in seeing the snippet rewritten in a more elegant
feature using the F9X features. I haven't used any Fortran since F77, 
with a little bit of Connection Machine Fortran while in grad school, 
so explanations of any subtleties would be appreciated. 

If you think that communication between the two newsgroups has
deteriorated just sending email would also be fine. 

Best regards

-- Brian