Re: another way to shoot yourself in the foot?

["Colin Paul Gloster" <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>]

Gary Scott <garylscott@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message 
news:NPKbk.14568$N87.10457@nlpi068.nbdc.sbc.com ...
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|"Colin Paul Gloster wrote:                                         |
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|> and we have FORTRAN and C++ codebases which I should improve. How|
|> better to start than by porting to Ada!?                         |
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|Or Fortran 95 or Fortran 2003 (ok, 2003 is nearly available)       |
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|> Colin Paul Gloster                                               |
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|Gary Scott"                                                        |
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Perhaps you would care to look again at my list posted on 16 Aug 2007
09:16:21 GMT in the thread "Interested about number crunching in Ada":

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|"In news:ZlSwi.47515$xx1.37834@newsfe09.phx timestamped Wed, 15 Aug 
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|2007 23:43:02 -0700, "Nasser Abbasi" <n...@12000.org> posted: 
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|Unfortunately so, and a reason to be sceptical of supposedly 
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|scientific results obtained numerically. Of course, if someone can not 
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|Regards, 
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|Colin Paul Gloster" 
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Let us not forget that the standardization body took different
directions in two of the latest attempts at an object-oriented Fortran
(though something similar could be said for Ada).

Regards,
Colin Paul