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!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newsdst02.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr29.news.prodigy.net.POSTED!2febb241!not-for-mail Reply-To: "Nasser Abbasi" From: "Nasser Abbasi" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran References: Subject: Re: Ada vs Fortran for scientific applications X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.235.217.221 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr29.news.prodigy.net 1148314840 ST000 69.235.217.221 (Mon, 22 May 2006 12:20:40 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:20:40 EDT Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com X-UserInfo1: F[OOR^KGFJWWSV@YLJKB^RTDFZ\@@FXLM@TDOCQDJ@_@FN\CDVW[AKK[J\]^HVKHG^EWZHBLO^[\NH_AZFWGN^\DHNVMX_DHHX[FSQKBOTS@@BP^]C@RHS_AGDDC[AJM_T[GZNRNZAY]GNCPBDYKOLK^_CZFWPGHZIXW@C[AFKBBQS@E@DAZ]VDFUNTQQ]FN Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 16:20:40 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4340 comp.lang.fortran:10078 Date: 2006-05-22T16:20:40+00:00 List-Id: "Dan Nagle" wrote in message news:tHkcg.6937$kR6.484@trnddc05... >> 11) Operators on any types, including arrays. Define a matrix product as >> "*"... > > How is Ada's operators for types better or worse than Fortran's? > Is Ada's "*" operator better than Fortran's matmul()? > I'll answer the easy one for now since I have not had my coffee yet: It is clear that A*B is easier to read and understand than MATMUL(A,B) would you not agree? > > "Fortran" /= "FORTRAN 77" ;-) > Yes :), I was surprised to read that now FORTRAN is called Fortran, (only one letter is uppercase). This is progress (I think). Nasser