[Info-vax] [OT] Wirth style languages, was: Re: Obscure Ada compiler vendors?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <as66npFhi88U1 at mid.individual.net>, bill at server1.cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:

> IMHO hacking OO onto languages desigend for an older paradigm is just
> plain wrong.  Fortran had a specific purpose.  Most o fthe work doing
> that today needs to be very parallel.  I have not wroked much with
> Fortran beyond 77 but I odubt it is optimized for parallel computing.

   You would be wrong.  Fortran is a natural choice for parallel number
   crunching, the standard actually has hooks for it, and large volumes
   of parallel number crunching code is out there in Fortran.