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From: Jeff Templon <templon@visar.physast.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: Fortran or Ada?
Date: 1998/09/22
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Date: 1998-09-22T00:00:00+00:00
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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.

I agree with the previous posters that otherwise, Ada has very many
advantages.  Apparently Wirth once said that if he had to do
mission-critical software development, he would use Ada, no question.

(for people who may not know, Wirth invented the languages Pascal,
 Modula, and Oberon.)

					JAT