From: peterw@archsci.arch.su.edu.au (Peter Williams ) Subject: Re: Fortran for linux ? (not f2c) Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 00:20:34 GMT
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.