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Re: Fortran 77 and 90
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Miller)
Mon Nov 11 15:54:30 1996
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 14:42:33 -0600
From: Tim Miller <tim@Quantum.Phy.Vanderbilt.Edu>
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Not to degrade the efforts of those writing f2c, but...
I think f2c sucks. I could never EVER get it to work.
Maybe I was doing something intrinsically wrong. This is
a BIG possibility.
There is g77 and someone has done all the hectic work to
put it all together into an RPM. I got mine back during the
Rembrandt II trials and installed it (since g77 is part of
gcc, you need to install the gcc that corresponds to g77)
But once I got all the RPMs, the gcc and g77 installed and
works fine.
Damn shame physicists code crappy and still code in Fortran
(imagine crappy coding inside crappy Fortran...*shiver*)
The g77 works like a charm...the code these idiotic physicists
write...now that's a different story.
Tim
P.S. g77 is basically a frontend (is this the right word) that
converts stuff to something the gcc compiler can use. I don't
pretend to know all the details, but then again, I don't care
about Fortran either....
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