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From: Sebastian Hanigk <sebastian.hanigk@fs.tum.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered  "too specialized" for scientific use
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:53:38 +0200
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Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com> writes:

> Obviously Fortran persists because of existing code base and
> those that only "know" that. But egads, the current rendition
> of Fortran seem to have so many "bags on the side" and is
> downright "butt ugly".  Why anyone would want to continue
> to wallow in that swill, is beyond me. Ada as a language OTOH, 
> is so nice and clean by comparison.

I won't even start with your puny attempts at a language crusade,
suffice to say that all the niceness and cleanness is quite unusable if
you don't have a compiler. And on most supercomputers where serious
number crunching is performed, you do not have an Ada compiler and even
building gnat would be a very major pain (bootstrapping ...).

Regards,

Sebastian