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- From: cflatter@nrao.edu (Chris Flatters)
- Subject: Re: [386bsd] f2c with record/structure sup
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.230414.24760@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
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- Organization: NRAO
- References: <1993Jan11.212052.1545@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 23:04:14 GMT
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- In article 1545@fcom.cc.utah.edu, terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan10.211632.3269@ll.mit.edu> pope@ll.mit.edu (Frank Pope) writes:
- >>Hi
- >>
- >>Does anyone out there know of a f2c translator which has been ported to
- >>386bsd that has support for fortran records and structures. I believe
- >>these are features found in FORTRAN 90 [not sure]. I want to
- >>convert some software written using MS Fortran 5.1 to c and run it
- >>under 386bsd. Thanks in advance.
- >
- >I don't know of many compilers, let alone translators, which support '90.
- >
- >Historically, the ANSI-90 FORTRAN was rejected by most major vendors,
- >either due to a lack of backward compatability or conflicts with vendor
- >extensions (depending on the vendor); it was rejected by Harris, DEC,
- >HP, and IBM... dunno if Sun was involved at all.
-
- IBM defected from the Luddite faction as early as May 1989. I believe that
- HP were long-time supporters of Fortran 90 as were Sun. Incidentally,
- Fortran 90 *is* backwards compatible with FORTRAN 77 but does not include
- some vendors extensions. User defined types have a syntax that differs
- from the VMS Fortran style adopted my Microsoft.
-
- Chris Flatters
- cflatter@nrao.edu
-