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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no 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 Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.hub.org!lon-transit.news.telstra.net!lon-in.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "robin" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran References: Subject: Re: Ada vs Fortran for scientific applications X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 05:26:36 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.139.71.210 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1148448396 144.139.71.210 (Wed, 24 May 2006 15:26:36 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 15:26:36 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4400 comp.lang.fortran:10170 Date: 2006-05-24T05:26:36+00:00 List-Id: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" wrote in message news:epcs4e.qb8.ln@hunter.axlog.fr... > 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).