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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used?
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 01:04:52 -0700
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On 5/20/2010 11:49 AM, Gautier write-only wrote:
> On May 20, 2:53 pm, Duke Normandin wrote:
>


>
>> and in what area(s) does it excel, e.g. data processing, number crunching, graphics, etc?
>

> It is excellent in these areas, and probably in many others...
> _________________________________________________________

I think the fact that  complex numbers are not a build-in primitive data 
type in Ada makes it bit harder to use for number crunching.

Fortran, for example, had complex numbers build into the language.  I 
wonder why the orginal designers did not add complex data type to the 
design of Ada.

Other than that, I think Ada would be a very good choice for number 
crunching, but from what I see, it is very little used in this area.

--Nasser