Evaluation of modern programming languages for use at LLNL
G.J. Blair, Brian Atkinson, L. Chase, Loren Cook, Jr. Charles B. Engle, A. Getchell, Jeanne Martin, J.E. Moura, C. Rasbold, Lindsay Carman Stringer · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 1986
The New Application Language Team, consisting of application programmers and compiler/library writers, was established to select a programming language that would improve the maintainability of large application codes and the productivity of programmers working on such codes. We developed a set of requirements and analyzed several existing languages with respect to these requirements - that is, LRLTRAN, the proposed Fortran 8X, C, Modula-2, Mesa, Ada, and Model. We selected Ada as the closet fit to the requirements and are continuing to investigate using Ada in application codes. 11 refs.