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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d901a50a5adfec3c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,9f0bf354542633fd X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public From: Corey Minyard Subject: Re: Fortran or Ada? Date: 1998/09/22 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 393735590 Sender: minyard@wf-rch.cirr.com References: <36068E73.F0398C54@meca.polymtl.ca> Organization: Wonderforce Research Reply-To: minyard@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-09-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Jeff Templon writes: > Hi, > > one other word on Ada ... it is a very complex language. Take a look > at Cohen's "Ada as a Second Language" book and compare it Metcalf > and Reid's F95 book! Cohen is not spending time on elementary concepts > either. > > So Ada loses in this respect : there is a lot of language to know. > This makes it more difficult to write programs, unless one invests > the time to learn the language well. This amount of time would > be less for Fortran. There is a lot of language to know if you use all of it. That's like saying the Unix library is very large and you have to know it all, even if you only want to do file I/O. Cohen's book (which I am quite fond of, BTW) is VERY detailed. If you remove generic programming, tasking, specialized I/O, systems programming, and all the other things most other languages don't supply, then that book would easily be half the size, if not more. To me, the base syntax of Ada is much simpler than Fortran (but the last Fortran I used was Fortran 77), but I have to look up the special things in a book or the RM. Another large part of the book is standard package stuff. I don't know how much of that F95 supplies, so I can't speak to that. -- Corey Minyard Internet: minyard@acm.org Work: minyard@nortel.ca UUCP: minyard@wf-rch.cirr.com