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From: jordan@Apple.COM (Jordan Mattson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: mac programming in FORTRAN
Message-ID: <46206@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 1 Nov 90 17:37:41 GMT
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In article <11571@sybase.sybase.com> winnie@tangelo.sybase.com (Winnie Leung) writes:
>I want to convert a couple of engineering programs from mainframe to the   
>Macintosh.  These programs are written in FORTRAN and are not easy to translate
>into C or Pascal.  I therefore want to program the Mac interface in FORTRAN.
>I have already acquired the Language System FORTRAN compiler.  The compiler 
>has a lot of features that mimics C, such as STRUCTUREs.  There is also some
>third party add-on packages that promise to make programming the Mac interface
>in LS FORTRAN easy.  Of them are FaceWare and Graphpack.  
>
>I want to know if somebody has experience in what I'm going to do.  Or some
>recommendations on alternatives?

Dear Winnie -
  Another possibility that you might want to examine is mixing Language Systems
FORTRAN code with either MPW C or MPW Object Pascal code.  This is fairly 
easy to do under MPW, and allows you to build your computational engine in
FORTRAN and use C or Pascal for the user interface.
  I have seen a number of people who have done what you are doing use MPW Object
Pascal and MacApp for programming the HI and then interfaced that with the
Language Systems FORTRAN code.
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