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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c4cb2c432feebd9d X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,c4cb2c432feebd9d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid1094ba,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!news-east.rr.com!news-wrt-01.rdc-nyc.rr.com!news-feed-01.rdc-nyc.rr.com!news.rr.com!news-out.nyc.rr.com!news-wrt-01.rdc-nyc.rr.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Reply-To: "Michael Metcalf" From: "Michael Metcalf" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran References: <44715DED.5050906@cits1.stanford.edu> Subject: Re: Ada vs Fortran for scientific applications X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response Message-ID: Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 11:48:02 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.193.60.119 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: news-wrt-01.rdc-nyc.rr.com 1148298482 24.193.60.119 (Mon, 22 May 2006 07:48:02 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 07:48:02 EDT Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4332 comp.lang.fortran:10065 Date: 2006-05-22T11:48:02+00:00 List-Id: "Brooks Moses" wrote in message news:44715DED.5050906@cits1.stanford.edu... > >> It is known that Ada strong domain is realtime and safety critical >> applications. I never understood why Ada never became popular in the >> scientific field in particular in areas such as computational physics or >> CFD or such similar fields. > > I have no idea; by the time I reached college, that popularity contest had > already been settled, and my intro-to-engineering class taught Fortran and > didn't teach Ada. > If I recall correctly, ADA has no complex arithmetic capability, a killer for those who need it. Regards, Mike Metcalf