[J3] [EXTERNAL] Re: Comments on 23-146

[Malcolm Cohen]

> Can someone representing a voting organization in WG5

 

The member bodies of SC22 are countries, not “organisations”. The participants on WG5 are individual experts, and despite being nominated by countries, they are representing their own expertise. It is not a voting place for their companies or countries.

 

> If I argued that WG5 should do something because of the membership size of WG21,

 

And yet, that is not what Van did. Someone else was claiming Ada was a dead or dying language. He merely presented some evidence that this was not the case.

 

> I’d expect to be treated with derision

 

I would expect the other members to follow the code of conduct, and treat everyone else with respect, even when their opinions differ.

 

> why learning from Ada is a higher priority

 

Ada has a lot more history with parallel execution than Fortran/C++/etc have. Learning from their mistakes and subsequent corrections would be a fine thing to do.

 

Perhaps their long experience with parallel programming and tasking in particular is inapplicable to the particular Fortran use cases, but dismissing it outright because it’s not a fashionable language any more is not an obviously-wise move.

 

Cheers,

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..............Malcolm Cohen, NAG Oxford/Tokyo.

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