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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c4cb2c432feebd9d X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,c4cb2c432feebd9d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid1094ba,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newsdst02.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr12.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!d58ee217!not-for-mail From: Tim Prince Reply-To: tprince@nospammyrealbox.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: Ada vs Fortran for scientific applications References: <44715DED.5050906@cits1.stanford.edu> <4dd87pF18ot14U1@individual.net> <447207D6.3010408@cits1.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <447207D6.3010408@cits1.stanford.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.125.161.25 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr12.news.prodigy.com 1148363476 ST000 68.125.161.25 (Tue, 23 May 2006 01:51:16 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 01:51:16 EDT Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com X-UserInfo1: F[O[SZSDZBSCRZH[\JIX_W@@USXB@DTMNHWB_EYLJZ]BGIELCNSKQFCY@TXDX_WHSVB]ZEJLSNY\^J[CUVSA_QLFC^RQHUPH[P[NRWCCMLSNPOD_ESALHUK@TDFUZHBLJ\XGKL^NXA\EVHSP[D_C^B_^JCX^W]CHBAX]POG@SSAZQ\LE[DCNMUPG_VSC@VJM Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 05:51:16 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4353 comp.lang.fortran:10100 Date: 2006-05-23T05:51:16+00:00 List-Id: Brooks Moses wrote: > On the other hand, I suspect that my view is colored pretty heavily from > not having a lot of parallel-processing experience, and that semantics > aren't anywhere near a most-of-the-top-languages-are-equivalent ceiling > there. Thus, I should probably limit my above claims to single-threaded > programs -- which I recognize is a significant limitation. > As a major claim to superiority for Ada lies in its built-in support for concurrency, the parallel capabilities acquired by Fortran must be compared, according to the topic opened here.