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Re: FORTRAN 77 compiler

viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:
: glyn@cs.UAlberta.CA (Reade Glyn Devin) writes:
: 
: >If so, where can I get, is it free/share/commercial-ware, etc?
: 
: 	Wander on over to your nearest Unix mini and look for the
: source.  Under BSD4.3 Unix, the source for the fortran compiler is
: written in C.  Looks to be 100% written in C, too.

    Look for f2c.  It is a fortran to C compiler.  I started porting
it over on my machine because of all the fortran I write at work and school
but ORCA/C didn't want to port it very well.  I was going to wait for the
new ORCA/C.

: 
: >Who feels that there is a use for a FORTRAN 77 compiler that
: >would work under ORCA/GNO?  Should it be FORTRAN 90?
: 
: 	I don't think there is a strong need; FORTRAN is primarially
: the realm of serious number crunchers, engineers, and the like.  I've
: not found a need to code in FORTRAN since I was a freshman in college.
: Were I to implement such a beast, though, I'd probably stick with
: fortran 77 as it's very well standardized; 90 hasn't come on strong
: yet.  Furthermore, if you run it under ORCA/GNO, I'd be very selective
: on what additions were made for graphical work.

     f2c is FORTRAN 90.  If you are going to do it.  Do it right.

: < Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu viking@iastate.edu >

Gary
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Gary F. Desrochers
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