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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham 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!news.glorb.com!news.aset.psu.edu!news.cse.psu.edu!elk.ncren.net!scrotar.nss.udel.edu!not-for-mail From: Rich Townsend Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: Ada vs Fortran for scientific applications Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 15:34:18 -0400 Organization: University of Delaware Message-ID: References: <447362af$1_2@news.bluewin.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: shayol.bartol.udel.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: scrotar.nss.udel.edu 1148412807 21734 128.175.14.63 (23 May 2006 19:33:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@udel.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 19:33:27 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8 (X11/20060417) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <447362af$1_2@news.bluewin.ch> Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4385 comp.lang.fortran:10148 Date: 2006-05-23T15:34:18-04:00 List-Id: Gautier wrote: > Nasser Abbasi: > >> I personally think that one way to make Ada popular for scientific use >> is to publish a version of the Numerical recipes book in Ada. >> >> I have been waiting for this for long time. > > > It won't happen spontaneously... > The best way is to help this happening. > Good news are that, you can translate the whole Pascal version through a > recent version of P2Ada (it works!); there is some manual rework to make > it compile and more to take advantage of Ada constructs like > unconstrained arrays (instead of arrays with fixed dimension in > Pascal!), standardized floating-points, I/O or modularity, but it is > definitely doable. > I head they did the C version with f2c. Hehehe. cheers, Rich