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Group: comp.lang.fortran · Group Profile
Author: Michael Prager
Date: Jun 2, 2008 07:18

Thomas Robitaille spam.com> wrote:
> As far as I am aware, there does not appear to be any large centralized
> repository for fortran 90/95 modules, where users could leave comments
> about the modules, rate then by e.g. code quality, speed, etc... I think
> this would be invaluable. So some kind of mix between the CPAN archive
> for perl, and sourceforge for complete programs or libraries.

If someone (meaning a group) were to work on this, it would save
a huge amount of duplicated effort worldwide. I hate to think
how many Fortran programmers have written their own procedures
to translate case of strings, or find available unit numbers, or
similar tasks.

That said, I'm not volunteering!

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Mike Prager, NOAA, Beaufort, NC
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