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,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c3d0e99376a4f379 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder3.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!217.73.144.44.MISMATCH!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!130.59.10.21.MISMATCH!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!newsserver.news.garr.it!newsserver.cilea.it!not-for-mail From: Colin Paul Gloster Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Interested about number crunching in Ada Date: 16 Aug 2007 09:16:21 GMT Organization: CILEA Message-ID: References: <1187235764.909133.180650@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: urano.iet.unipi.it X-Trace: newsserver.cilea.it 1187255781 12377 131.114.52.131 (16 Aug 2007 09:16:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@cilea.it NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Aug 2007 09:16:21 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:1459 Date: 2007-08-16T09:16:21+00:00 List-Id: In news:ZlSwi.47515$xx1.37834@newsfe09.phx timestamped Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:43:02 -0700, "Nasser Abbasi" posted: |-------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"[..] | | | |I can understand one choosing Fortran over Ada, simply due to the inertia | |that Fortran has in this domain, and the huge amount of existing Fortran | |code out there." | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Unfortunately so, and a reason to be sceptical of supposedly scientific results obtained numerically. Of course, if someone can not program well in Fortran and tries to program in Ada, the results would still be subject to suspicion. |-------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |" But from a language point of view, I think Ada is definitely | |better for numerical work than Fortran, but having a better language is not | |enough in the real world. | | | |Nasser" | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------------| True again. Some examples from news:comp.lang.fortran from June 2007 and July 2007 of problems related to using Fortran... news:qLmdnRLQp_-G4_vbnZ2dnUVZ8qWhnZ2d@eclipse.net.uk ; news:1183085026.130385.275600@w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com ; news:2007070314244816807-gsande@worldnetattnet ; news:1i0o9u8.1enugm5jfa16aN%nospam@see.signature ; news:5evopfF38kh8jU1@mid.individual.net ; news:5f8t9pF39qj8tU1@mid.individual.net ; news:468eae65$0$63187$a726171b@news.hal-pc.org ; news:1hzmym2.geqzg2np30c0N%nospam@see.signature ; news:1184354146.636131.244960@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com ; news:1i13nsb.nie62b18grpq6N%nospam@see.signature ; news:1i0vm88.ad0dvommy5v1N%nospam@see.signature ; news:Tdmdnb8ULb0qehLbnZ2dnUVZ_r-onZ2d@comcast.com ; news:yOUji.292583$p47.61895@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net ; news:1i0w2b8.1yg3e511o0w59vN%nospam@see.signature ; news:46902291$1@news.meer.net ; news:1i09cof.1u7n4sxq7c0cvN%nospam@see.signature ; news:f6strg$kbr$1@online.de ; news:f6voik$tb$2@online.de ; news:ldmdnbU9Iec5b-TbnZ2dnUVZ_oavnZ2d@comcast.com ; news:1i01upq.bgpxxo1o0duerN%nospam@see.signature ; news:1182983727.411268.298580@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com ; news:2007062720040816807-gsande@worldnetattnet ; news:1i0dkkl.1jlhd8111v4wv8N%nospam@see.signature ; news:94Dgi.9102$c06.8367@newssvr22.news.prodigy.net ; news:M6Dgi.9103$c06.8464@newssvr22.news.prodigy.net ; news:kNDgi.125855$Sa4.103793@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net ; news:1182994059.370009.275990@u2g2000hsc.googlegroups.com ; news:l0Egi.236875$p47.120808@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net ; news:4683F0DF.2060806@cits1.stanford.edu ; news:4683f755$0$63178$a726171b@news.hal-pc.org ; news:w%Vgi.241677$p47.220353@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net ; news:46845483.3060407@cits1.stanford.edu ; news:ajZgi.4784$cV.208@trnddc04 ; news:1182800003.825023.154970@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com . Regards, Colin Paul Gloster