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From: Dan Nagle <dannagle@verizon.net>
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Hello,

Dr. Adrian Wrigley wrote:

<snip>

> Isn't this a bit more like MPI?

Well, it's like MPI minus the rubbish.

> In Ada, these concurrency features are very robust and streamlined.
> This is because tasking was a primary goal of the language design.
> 
> For a typical Fortran application like weather forecasting, this
                                                               ^^^^
> is exactly the architecture you might choose.  It may be
> hardcore numerical code.

I'm not sure which antecedent "this" references,
but the meteorological folks are one of the main
forces behind co-arrays.

-- 
Cheers!

Dan Nagle
Purple Sage Computing Solutions, Inc.