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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6609c40f81b32989 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,9bdec20bcc7f3687 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Thread: 101deb,e67cdb1dcad3c668 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,gid8d3408f8c3,gidbda4de328f,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!novia!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.16.185.16.MISMATCH!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news7 From: "J. Clarke" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.pl1 Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered "too specialized" for scientific use Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 20:18:57 -0400 Organization: NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $19.95 Message-ID: References: <4bb9c72c$0$6990$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> <4bba8bf1$0$56418$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <4bbb2246$8$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> <4bbb5386$0$56422$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <4bbdf5c6$1$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> <4c0a2e36$0$34205$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <4c0b234f$1$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: p5ad5bf1463d3dafe131b804d789dbfb6c7e165c805108b7e.newsdawg.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 Hamster-Pg/1.13 In-Reply-To: Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11380 comp.lang.fortran:24096 comp.lang.pl1:1387 Date: 2010-06-06T20:18:57-04:00 List-Id: On 6/6/2010 7:01 PM, Gib Bogle wrote: > Martin Krischik wrote: >> Am 06.06.2010, 17:19 Uhr, schrieb J. Clarke : >> >>> On 6/6/2010 12:25 AM, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote: >> >>> What do you believe to be the difference between machine code and >>> assembler? >> >> 6502 Assembler: >> >> LDA #10 >> >> 6502 Machine code: >> >> A9 10 >> >> Any more silly questions? > > Yes. What relevance does this have for Fortran? None at all, but it's fun to torment the "I program in machine code because it gives me more control than assembler" crowd.