"Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> wrote in message
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> Nasser Abbasi a �crit :
> > What are the technical language specific reasons why Fortran would be
> > selected over Ada?
> >
> Some immediate reasons:
> 1) Packaging. Packages allow better organization of software, which is
> good for any kind of application.

Modules?

> 9) Generics. Stop rewriting these damn sorting routines 1000 times.

Generic procedures are available in Fortran.

> 10) Default parameters. Makes complex subprograms (simplex...) much
> easier to use.
>
> 11) Operators on any types, including arrays. Define a matrix product as
> "*"...

Well, you can do that too in Fortran with UDO's (for another symbol).
But there's no need to, with MATMUL (a builtin matrix
multiplication procedure).