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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bd458ec8f01c159a,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-24 14:20:29 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: New Language Design: (Cray, Sun prep radical software models for petaflops systems) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 17:05:52 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1069711513 198.96.223.163 (Mon, 24 Nov 2003 17:05:13 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 17:05:13 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2910 Date: 2003-11-24T17:05:52-05:00 List-Id: Full article at http://www.eet.com/story/OEG20031119S0013 Getting high-end computer users to rally around a new language will be a tough job given past failures with languages such as Ada, HPF and Prolog, said Zima. Therefore, he said, the Cray team will also show ways of extending Fortran and C++ to deliver the same functionality the new language could offer. I find it interesting that they classified "Ada" as a failure, and are looking at ways to extend "Fortran" (of all things) and C++. Naturally, Sun sees every problem as a potential Java application: "We need to come up with a software layer like a Java bytecode or a PDF format and standardize it," said John Gustafson, a researcher at Sun Labs. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg [Remove nospam from the email address: the worms made me do it!]