Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zazen!doug.cae.wisc.edu!simmons From: simmons@rigel.neep.wisc.edu (Kim Simmons) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Fortran on the Next platform Message-ID: Date: 24 May 91 22:31:42 GMT References: Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin,Madison., NEEP Department Lines: 49 In-reply-to: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu's message of 24 May 91 16:36:31 GMT In article gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) writes: Path: doug.cae.wisc.edu!zazen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dali.cs.montana.edu!rpi!usenet From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Date: 24 May 91 16:36:31 GMT Lines: 15 Nntp-Posting-Host: eclipse.its.rpi.edu Leaving all jokes about fortran aside (please), someone who is interested in purchasing a next was wondering what (if any) fortran options are available. I see there is a fortran-to-c converter available (according to the FAQ list), and the spring issue of Software and Peripherals lists a few Fortran compilers (most of which are too expensive for a single user, I would think). Are there any other options available? Has anyone used any of the options available to write fortran programs which would run on both the NeXT and other unix-y platforms (such as Sun IPC's)? - - - - - - - - Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@rpi.edu or gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA f2c works very well on the NeXT. As a matter of fact, it works better than the present version of Absoft Fortran (in that it generates correct code and slightly faster code than Absoft). Hopefully for a product that costs $995 ,this will change in the next release of Absoft Fortran. Absoft FORTRAN is available, lists for $995. The academic price is $750, though i'm not sure if this applies to students. In any case this is much too high a price for students around here to pay. None of them can afford it, hence they make do with f2c. Would be nice if NeXT supported FORTRAN like Sun and Dec and IBM and HP does. This could easily be done via some support for the gnu FORTRAN project. However, i guess their lack of support for FORTRAN is consistent with their lack of interest in the technical workstation market. -- =============================================================================== Internet: simmons@rigel.neep.wisc.edu Othernet: simmons@hoofers.lake.mendota --- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- According to the HitchHikers guide to the galaxy, the one thing we *cannot* afford to have is a sense of perspective. ===============================================================================