> A friend of mine (a computer engineer who uses C++) insists that Ada95
> is the best programming language for scientists and non-computer
> engineers . His reasons:
> (from: http://www.adahome.com/Tutorials/Lovelace/s1s1.htm)
> I know the answers to these questions could be long and/or they are
> already discussed. I appreciate if you point me to the related
> references.
I think a nice discussion would be useful to the list in general. I've
heard a lot about ADA, but have never come into contact with it.
If he can take some time out from his busy schedule, perhaps some
comments by Steve Lionel would be interesting, considering the fact that
he has worked on (at least) the following compilers: FORTRAN77,
Fortran90 (both VAX and ALPHA), VAX Pascal, VAX Ada and VAXELN Ada.
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