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Re: When will this ng come to accept that Fortran needs to go "back to the futur

gary.l.scott@lmco.com

2007-03-14, 7:12 pm

On Mar 14, 10:30 am, Charles Russell <NOS...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Ben Hetland wrote:
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> I should have said "run correctly". You can't port C even between
> different flavors of unix without editing a lot of configuration code.
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> 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.
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> Not usually relevant to the casual scientific user, like myself, who
> just 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 applications,
threads and processes and priorities, shared memory and memory mapped
files...

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