Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!pacbell.com!ames!dftsrv!etac632!joe From: joe@etac632 (Joe Fulson-Woytek) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: Fortran 9X replaced by Ada 9X ? Message-ID: <3414@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> Date: 14 Sep 90 13:03:42 GMT References: <1990Sep13.013750.24378@relay.wpd.sgi.com> Sender: news@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov Reply-To: joe@etac632.gsfc.nasa.gov (Joe Fulson-Woytek) Organization: NSESCC, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD Lines: 17 :On 13 Sep 90 01:37:50 GMT, bean@putter.wpd.sgi.com (Bean Anderson) said: : :Obviously, those of us in the compiler business need to :predict as accurately as possible what the customer base :really wants (as opposed to what *we* think they need) in :order to plan our future work. : :So, netland, what is the future for Fortran 9X? Is this :argument just so much hogwash? Will Fortran live forever? : I just want to clarify something from this original posting. NASA is a large agency. The fact that some highly visible projects are using ADA does not mean that NASA as a whole is doing so. For the thousand + users of our supercomputer center (Cray Y-MP and IBM mainframes) Fortran is clearly the language of choice and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Joe Fulson-Woytek