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: 103376,42490cad53ee37fa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!proxad.net!proxad.net!62.253.162.218.MISMATCH!news-in.ntli.net!newsrout1-win.ntli.net!ntli.net!newspeer1-win.ntli.net!newsfe5-gui.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Dr. Adrian Wrigley" Subject: Re: NOACE- End of the road for Ada? User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) Message-Id: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 14:54:16 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.100.88.147 X-Complaints-To: http://www.ntlworld.com/netreport X-Trace: newsfe5-gui.ntli.net 1111071256 81.100.88.147 (Thu, 17 Mar 2005 14:54:16 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 14:54:16 GMT Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9546 Date: 2005-03-17T14:54:16+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:56:59 +0300, Alexander E. Kopilovich wrote: > Marin David Condic wrote: >> What about math and statistics packages? > > I don't think that math and statistics are natural domains for Ada... > especially statistics, where APL seems to be the most suitable programming > language. I strongly think Ada *is* a natural choice for maths/stats/scientific computing. You get excellent clarity, robustness and performance. And Ada generics beat anything I have come across for code reuse and strong abstrations of interfaces of the kind needed in these fields. Of course if you want to use a specialized system, Matlab/S Plus/ Mathematica might be natural choice, keeping development time down. But compared to the usual general-purpose language choices, I think it is a natural choice. Is Fortran90/C++/Perl/Java really any more technically suitable? I can't really comment on APL. -- Adrian