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, 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!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newsdst02.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr12.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!2febb241!not-for-mail Reply-To: "Nasser Abbasi" From: "Nasser Abbasi" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran References: <0ugu4e.4i7.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> <%P_cg.155733$eR6.26337@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> <1hfu968.1i5puf26uqbldN%nospam@see.signature> 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; Original Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.235.211.200 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr12.news.prodigy.com 1148495988 ST000 69.235.211.200 (Wed, 24 May 2006 14:39:48 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 14:39:48 EDT Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com X-UserInfo1: FKPO@S^DTZRUST@[ORK@_VXB\JT@QDDMEPWXODMMHXMTWA]EPMTC@AWZWDXZXQ[K\FFSKCVM@F_N_DOBWVWG__LG@VVOIPLIGX\\BU_B@\P\PFX\B[APHTWAHDCKJF^NHD[YJAZMCY_CWG[SX\Y]^KC\HSZRWSWKGAY_PC[BQ[BXAS\F\\@DMTLFZFUE@\VL Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 18:39:48 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4425 comp.lang.fortran:10213 Date: 2006-05-24T18:39:48+00:00 List-Id: "Richard E Maine" wrote in message news:1hfu968.1i5puf26uqbldN%nospam@see.signature... ..... >"No, Fortran 90 is more like a cross between Fortran > 77 and Ada." Like most analogies, that one is far from perfect, but it > is about as well as I can do with that few words. > Well, at least one thing is common between Ada and Fortran: Both are case INSENSITIVE. I think this is a good thing, because I like to see the KEYWORDS in uppercase. This seems to make the code more readable to me. Nasser