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From: Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered  "too specialized" for scientific use
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Georg Bauhaus expounded in
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> (2) why not use a better C compiler (if it has to be C) even on
> MS Windows, such as the ones listed below---if it has to be C?
> 
> (I should add that the MS OS is purchased at a higher price
> than most alternatives, too; price was a listed as an issue.)

They didn't even take advantage of C's own type system. 
Everything flows through a WORD or DWORD. The win api
is so very lame because of this.  The C++ layer is
better, but..

> Or less attractive than compilers for one of the other
> languages such as Ada or Fortran or ... that support both fairly
> recent standards and computing with complex numbers.

Obviously Fortran persists because of existing code base and
those that only "know" that. But egads, the current rendition
of Fortran seem to have so many "bags on the side" and is
downright "butt ugly".  Why anyone would want to continue
to wallow in that swill, is beyond me. Ada as a language OTOH, 
is so nice and clean by comparison.

Warren