...>>>formats can create challenges here.) Yes. C does beat fortran here. I would like to see fortran support stream-of-unsigned-8-bit-byte, which seems to be the easiest...> Very relevant to those of us that use Fortran as the general purpose language that it is. ...... Power tools are fine, for those who need them, if Swiss army knives remain available for those...

...binary file formats can create challenges here.) Yes. C does beat fortran here. I would like to see fortran support stream-of-unsigned-8-bit-byte, which seems to be the easiest abstract structure for... wants a math tool. Very relevant to those of us that use Fortran as the general purpose language that it is. GUIs, networked client-server...

... on the other platforms is important. (Especially binary file formats can create challenges here.) Yes. C does beat fortran here. I would like to see fortran support stream-of-unsigned-8-bit-byte, which seems to be the easiest abstract structure for portably handling binary data. - Interaction with ...

... of this claim. It's even less worth digging up details if they just get ignored. -- Richard Maine | Good judgement comes from experience; email: last name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgement. domain: summertriangle | -- Mark Twain

...I USED the MS V3.31 Fortran compiler for the first time sometime ...I have used VERY MANY other fortran compilers in my 30 years with Shell and related companies because Fortran is very good for refinery work...early sixties working ON and WITH Fortran. Only the MS 3.31 has...were crippled a bit as a come-on for "more powerful" versions. ...from my reach with command-line fortran, but till then it's far...

... started using autoconf and it helped me a lot with... my Fortran bindings ! The other stuff I could have done by hand ... I compile quick and dirty versions of the fragment I need. This sort of thing is language-independent, though. ...(The autobook covers automake and libtool in addition to autoconf). For Fortran, blas, lapack and mpi macros for autoconf try: http://jonas....

...'t think this is really different from writing C glue routines for a typical Unix environment... because in this case, the routines that are wanted are POSIX C calls. Well, the default argument passing mechanisms are different for various data types, so you have to take care of that, yes. On VMS, it's of course C which is the odd language out, not Fortran, in this regard. Jan

... is a small language". Whatever the Fortran elders achieved - they sure ensured that Fortran can compete in the major leagues when it comes to ugliness. There is no doubt...that if nobody goes back to fortran 77 Why would anybody want to go back to bug-ridden Fortran 77 ? You should try something better.... But this is what current Fortran fixes/avoids: 1. COMMON blocks ...

...edu>, Steven G. Kargl <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: I found a PDF copy of the PXF lib specs on-line. gfortan may someday support (some of) these features. First, I need to work on being independently wealth. :-) You could always take the GPLed version out of Open64. If I write the code, I can assign Copyright to the FSF. This would permit distribution...

In article <esn1ep$143$1@gnus01.u.washington.edu>, Steven G. Kargl <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: I found a PDF copy of the PXF lib specs on-line. gfortan may someday support (some of) these features. First, I need to work on being independently wealth. :-) You could always take the GPLed version out of Open64. -- greg