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From: acar@ee.umr.edu
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Subject: Re: The worst compiler in the whole wide world
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Date: 5 Jul 90 20:50:39 GMT
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In article <2330.26922b0b@csc.anu.oz> you write:
|>In article <16430@windy.dsir.govt.nz>, SRWMSPW@windy.dsir.govt.nz writes:
|>> 
|>> 	Whats the worst fortran compiler in the whole wide world?
|>> 
|>> 	ANSWER: THE DEC F77 ULTRIX RISC COMPILER
|>> 
|>> 	In 20 years of scientific computing i have experienced some 
|>> bad ones (IBM H extended springs to mind) but never never anything this bad.
|>> 
|>> Does anybody know if later versions (we seem to be stuck with 1.0) solve
|>> any of the many problems.
|>
|>
|>So what's wrong with it?
|>I'm using it on a DECStation 3100 and it works fine, some minor bugs
|>but nothing major.

Me too. Moreover, it is about three times faster than the compiler we
have on a Sparcstation 1.

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L. Acar --- Univ. of Missouri-Rolla

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L. Acar --- Univ. of Missouri-Rolla