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- From: peterw@archsci.arch.su.edu.au (Peter Williams )
- Subject: Re: Fortran for linux ? (not f2c)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.002034.23733@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
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- Organization: Design Computing Unit, Sydney University
- References: <books.150.0@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 00:20:34 GMT
- Lines: 44
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- In article 0@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu, books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu (Roger Books) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec9.023607.765@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
- >
- >>At risk of sounding horribly condescending - I would personally prefer that
- >>fortran isn't perpetuated one second beyond its alloated life-span and let's
- >>face it - it's gone on far too long - and still suffers from the abuse of
- >>its earliest misfeatures. I have used fortran considerably (not really out
- >>of choice) - and personally worked on the rehabilitation of one utter
- >>disaster that used all the worst features of the language and none of the
- >>better ones.
- >>
- >
- >You know, I have a bunch of physics grad students here. Many of them
- >have 386+387 or 486's. Many would like to work exclusivly on their PC's,
- >but their data analasys uses huge data arrays (48 MB is common.) Linux
- >would be an ideal solution, but we have all this analysis software written
- >on our Unix/VMS machines in fortran. I guess they could put off graduating
- >a few years and rewrite the code in C.
- >
- >Really, after doing a VMS upgrade and having this VAXcluster BS kill my
- >machines, then having Ultrix not let me use all my memory in one array
- >because I'm swapping on two different disks, I'd love to switch much of this
- >over to Linux. Unfortunately we have no Fortran compiler.
- >
- >>--
- >>Tom J Parry.
- >>Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
- >
- >Roger Books
- >System manager for FSU physics/nuclear research group
- >
- >books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu
-
-
- This article has nothing to do with linux as far as I can see. This news group is
- already very busy. Perhaps you could continue this discussion by email or a more
- appropriate news group. Thanks.
-
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