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

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote:
> 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.

I haven't been convinced yet, but, yes Coarrays have been added along
with other features to make them usable. 

Still, I don't know that "optimized for parallel computation" means
exactly, but I don't believe Fortran is there yet.

If you want something more optimized for parallel computation,
look at ZPL.

-- glen