Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
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From: nfwarmerdam@spurge.uwaterloo.ca (Frank Warmerdam)
Subject: Re: What is the FORTRAN for ?
Message-ID: <1990Jul25.234559.27955@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Summary: FORTRAN is (fairly) portable!
Keywords: FORTRAN, stupidity
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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 90 23:45:59 GMT
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At the company where I work we develop CFD codes to be run on many different
clients computers.  Everything from IBM 3090's, Crays, and down to Suns and
various other workstations.  We need extreme portability, and up to this time
FORTRAN77 has been the most portable language available.

Within another few years it will probable be safe to move to C, as Ansi
compilers become widely available, but till then C is a real problem on 
many systems.

Of course this does not mean that I *like* FORTRAN. :-)

Frank Warmerdam

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