Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language)

From: MSG (msg1825_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/11/04 

Date: 10 Feb 2004 18:19:13 -0800

Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message news:<vjah20tahj48fftkpeghp29ugnojfdd4r4@4ax.com>...
> On 9 Feb 2004 18:26:33 -0800, msg1825@yahoo.com (MSG) wrote:
> >
> >1. no real time

[...]

> >2. bugs welcome (but not wrong results) - lusers will not come near my
> >programs

[...]

> It is easy to write a virus program scanning your source codes and
> randomly sowing them with bugs, if you so enjoy them...

What I meant was of course that I don't place as much emphasis on
these as, say, Boeing does, and so all other factors in language
choice become relatively more important to me.

> >3. performance is highly important
>
> GNAT is a front end of GNU C...

Can you write (*) a matrix multiplication routine in Ada, compile it
with GNAT and measure the number CPU cycles per FLOP, compare to a
similar routine in C?
The shootout seems to put GNAT closer to Perl and Java than to C/C++.

Cheers,
MSG

(*) Only if you think the one on the shootout page is inadequate.

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