Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!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: 26 May 91 21:37:44 GMT References: <1991May25.003520.20433@math.ucla.edu> Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin,Madison., NEEP Department Lines: 52 In-reply-to: barry@pico.math.ucla.edu's message of 25 May 91 00:35:20 GMT In article <1991May25.003520.20433@math.ucla.edu> barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes: Path: doug.cae.wisc.edu!zazen!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucla-cs!ucla-ma!pico!barry From: barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Date: 25 May 91 00:35:20 GMT References: Sender: news@math.ucla.edu Organization: UCLA Dept. of Math, UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research Lines: 19 In article simmons@rigel.neep.wisc.edu (Kim Simmons) writes: > >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. Well, Sun has un-bundled their fortran compiler; you have to buy it now. I doubt many individuals could afford that, either. In general, unbundling compilers seems to be a trend for computer manufactures these days (another e.g.: Connection Machine). -- Barry Merriman UCLA Dept. of Math UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet) barry@arnold.math.ucla.edu (NeXTMail) True but, (1) Sun has a FORTRAN compiler, NeXT does not. (2) Sun has always and continue to give us their FORTRAN compiler, without us having to pay for it (so does DEC by the way). (3) No students or individuals have Sparcstations around here that i know i.e. personal purchase as opposed to say University Departmental purchase. (4) Because Sun does it does not mean that NeXT should do it, even if they had a FORTRAN compiler to do it with. -- =============================================================================== 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. ===============================================================================