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,c4cb2c432feebd9d X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,c4cb2c432feebd9d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid1094ba,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news-in.ntli.net!newsrout1-win.ntli.net!ntli.net!news.highwinds-media.com!newspeer1-win.ntli.net!newsfe1-gui.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Dr. Adrian Wrigley" Subject: Re: Ada vs Fortran for scientific applications 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,comp.lang.fortran References: <44715DED.5050906@cits1.stanford.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:01:23 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.10.238.153 X-Trace: newsfe1-gui.ntli.net 1148299283 82.10.238.153 (Mon, 22 May 2006 13:01:23 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 13:01:23 BST Organization: NTL Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4333 comp.lang.fortran:10066 Date: 2006-05-22T12:01:23+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 22 May 2006 11:48:02 +0000, Michael Metcalf wrote: > "Brooks Moses" wrote in message > news:44715DED.5050906@cits1.stanford.edu... >> >>> It is known that Ada strong domain is realtime and safety critical >>> applications. I never understood why Ada never became popular in the >>> scientific field in particular in areas such as computational physics or >>> CFD or such similar fields. >> >> I have no idea; by the time I reached college, that popularity contest had >> already been settled, and my intro-to-engineering class taught Fortran and >> didn't teach Ada. > > If I recall correctly, ADA has no complex arithmetic capability, a killer > for those who need it. Annex G (Numerics) of Ada 95 specifies complex arithmetic and I/O. It's only been around for eleven years... -- Adrian