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From: carroll@ssc-vax (Jeff Carroll)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: VMS vs. Unix Fortran
Keywords: VMS Unix Fortran
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Date: 26 Feb 91 23:47:23 GMT
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In article <592@siswat.UUCP> buck@siswat.UUCP (A. Lester Buck) writes:

>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.

	No, the unix debuggers are not bad; but VAX DEBUG is about
	as nice a debugger as I can imagine on a character-cell
	terminal.

	I have used a few different FORTRAN compilers under unix,
	and liked most of them, though I hesitate to recommend one
	because I know of at least one supplier whose compiler is
	very good on some CPUs and bad on others.

	In my experience, VAX users are phobic about the possibility
	of having to use another machine or OS. VMS makes things
	very easy for the *applications* programmer.

	However, if you have to make a lot of VMS system calls in your
	code, it's another story - besides the fact that you get
	much more bang for the buck from a Unix box.



-- 
Jeff Carroll
carroll@ssc-vax.boeing.com