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From: taylor@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Ross Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: 386 Fortran Compilers
Message-ID: <1990Aug15.142009.19974@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: 15 Aug 90 14:20:09 GMT
Reply-To: taylor@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Ross Taylor)
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I have only recently discovered the Fortran net so please forgive me if
I am asking some old questions.

1.  I get the impression from the postings I have read that most of you
    are programming Fortran for unix based workstations and
    multiprocessor computers.  I, however, prefer to use a 386 PC and
    have acquired a compiler for that architecture (FTN77 distributed in
    the USA by OTG systems but originating at Salford University in the
    UK).  I am interested in comments of users of other 386 specific
    compilers, especially the new WATCOM F77/386.  Has anybody out there
    used it yet?

2.  There is a lot written in some of the computer magazines about
    Object Oriented Programming (OOP).  So far, I have either not
    understood the articles or have been left wondering why there is
    such a big fuss about this.  Is this "new" style of programming
    really fundamentally different from what good FORTRAN programmers
    have been doing for decades (creating complex programs from well
    tested subroutines and functions)?

Ross Taylor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 13699
email: taylor@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (internet)