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From: "Baugereau" <baugereau@ifrance.kom>
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Subject: Re: ada paper critic
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> >The FACT is that Intel C++ beats gnat (and gcc), because much more
> >effort has been invested.
> >Real people who care about speed of generated code (they exist) don't
have
> >the choice on many platforms.
>
> This is why their use Fortran compilers - why not, after all ?

Agreed, but if you want to make a complete application such as a videogame
or a desktop application with only one language, you need a more versatile
language than Fortran, in my opinion.
I like Ada, but one has to admit that C++ is popular so C++ tools are more
common and C++ compilers optimize well and popular APIs are in C or C++ and
so on...