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- From: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
- Subject: Re: Welcome to HPFF
- Keywords: HPFF, High Performance Fortran
- Message-ID: <10333@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 14:50:30 GMT
- References: <Bsy43C.9BG@rice.edu> <1992Aug14.092952.11572@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
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- Reply-To: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr)
- Organization: SCRI, Florida State University
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- In article <1992Aug14.092952.11572@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> i2041101@rzphy1.rz.tu-bs.de (Paulini) writes:
- >
- > ....... A better way seems to me to design a comptetely
- >new language or to use an existing better (like C, Ada, Modula or whatever).
- ^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^
-
- You must be kidding.
-
- Unless there has been a major breakthrough, the best Ada compilers produce
- code that runs several times slower than the equivalent Fortran code.
-
- I joke with my brother, who has to work with Ada, that it was the result
- of a KGB plot to eliminate our advantage in computer-assisted weapons
- systems by making all of our new code inefficient.
-
- --
- J. A. Carr | "The New Frontier of which I
- jac@gw.scri.fsu.edu | speak is not a set of promises
- Florida State University B-186 | -- it is a set of challenges."
- Supercomputer Computations Research Institute | John F. Kennedy (15 July 60)
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