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From: andyn@stpstn.UUCP (Andy Novobilski)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Fortran vs. C for numerical work
Message-ID: <5926@stpstn.UUCP>
Date: 18 Dec 90 16:01:21 GMT
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Reply-To: andyn@stepstone.com (Andy Novobilski)
Organization: The Stepstone Corporation, Sandy Hook, CT 06482
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In article <18756@netcom.UUCP> avery@netcom.UUCP (Avery Colter) writes:
>Well, like it or not, I HAVE to. Well, not quite, there is Pascal or assembly.
>I'm interested in getting into desktop tools for Apple computers. I'm
>currently on a GS, and might get into Macintoshes later on. Even if I ever
>consider (rrrrack, pttthhh) Windows 3.0, Fortran doesn't loom large as
>a desktop lingo. In fact, Fortran hasn't loomed large on Apple computers
>at all! The only version I've ever seen is some dinky little thing for the
>eight-bit II models in the ancient UCSD Pascal operating system.
>

There are several Fortran packages for the Macintosh (including two
listed in the Summer'90 APDAlog) that will work with the Mac toolkit.
The ones listed in the APDAlog, work in the MPW environment.  This
would allow you to construct an app by keeping your original fortran
computational engine and using MacApp (Pascal of C++) to build the
interface.

There is another Fortran, by a company named DCL (Ft Worth, TX),
that provided a package of routines to construct simple windows and
dialogs for building mac like user interfaces.

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