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From: umapy03@sunb.cc.ic.ac.uk (K. Hampel  Ext 6918  Supvsr D.Vvedensky)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: The worst compiler in the whole wide world
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Date: 6 Jul 90 13:52:20 GMT
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In article <2330.26922b0b@csc.anu.oz> axt654@csc.anu.oz writes:
>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.

Well, we're now onto version 2.1 in MIPS parlance (i.e. that is what is
reported by 'f77 -V prog.f'). This is NOT the same number as in the
ULTRIX documentation. This now seems to be a working (and fast) version
of the f77 compiler. So far it has worked very well with all our codes.

Kris Hampel, Solid State Theory Group. kris@sst.ph.ic.ac.uk
					    uk.ac.ic.ph.sst (JaNET)