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From: buck@siswat.UUCP (A. Lester Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: VMS vs. Unix Fortran
Keywords: VMS Unix Fortran
Message-ID: <592@siswat.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 91 06:08:31 GMT
Organization: Photon Graphics,  Houston
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A friend had been developing a major interactive geophysical processing
system using VMS Fortran for over a year.  Recently he has been forced
to switch from a comfortable development environment to working at home,
and he needs to buy a machine.  He does almost all the processing in
Fortran, but is learning C and X to build a user interface.  (He is
a very smart guy.)  His friends tell him that switching from VMS
Fortran to any Unix Fortran cuts productivity in half for Fortran
development, so he is leaning heavily toward purchasing a VAXstation
instead of a fast, cheap Unix box.  I don't have any experience with
Fortran under Unix, and the last time I did Fortran under VMS was
ages ago.

Is there really no acceptable Fortran development environment
under Unix?  Are the Unix Fortran debuggers that bad?  If anyone
has any first hand experience, I would really appreciate hearing
about your opinions.

Thanks alot,

A. Lester Buck    buck@siswat.lonestar.org  ...!uhnix1!lobster!siswat!buck

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A. Lester Buck    buck@siswat.lonestar.org  ...!uhnix1!lobster!siswat!buck