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 Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!feed.xsnews.nl!feeder.xsnews.nl!68.142.88.75.MISMATCH!hwmnpeer01.ams!news-out.ntli.net!newsrout1-gui.ntli.net!ntli.net!news.highwinds-media.com!newspeer1-win.ntli.net!newsfe6-win.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: <0ugu4e.4i7.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> <%P_cg.155733$eR6.26337@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> <6H9dg.10258$S7.9150@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <1hfv5wb.1x4ab1tbdzk7eN%nospam@see.signature> <4e078qF1cb6frU1@individual.net> <4e0e21F1chamsU1@individual.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 15:47:06 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.10.238.153 X-Trace: newsfe6-win.ntli.net 1148917626 82.10.238.153 (Mon, 29 May 2006 16:47:06 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 16:47:06 BST Organization: NTL Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4586 comp.lang.fortran:10430 Date: 2006-05-29T15:47:06+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 29 May 2006 16:17:06 +0200, Jan Vorbr�ggen wrote: >> Clearly, Ariane 5's case is not representative of the vast >> bulk of real-world code. > > Quite to the contrary - almost all of the world's code is in embedded > systems, Winwoes notwithstanding. The unrepresentative combination of features of Ariane 5's code I was referring to were: 1) Hard real-time, termination highly likely to result in catastrophe 2) Never tested in anticipated context before use 3) Lack of designed resiliance against bugs Thanks for your clarification - makes better sense now! -- Adrian