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From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
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Subject: Re: 4.2BSD and F77: Some Questions
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Date: Thu, 10-Nov-83 20:24:30 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 10 20:24:30 1983
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>   Now for the real point of this article: Two questions:
> 
>   1) We are about to go to 4.2BSD. Is the f77 that comes with that
>      version of UNIX any better than the one that comes with 4.1a?
> 
>   2) Does anyone know of any other FORTRAN compilers that will run under
>      4.2BSD? We might even consider buying one, but of course we would
>      prefer something in the public domain.

I had been commissioned by our Dept. Chairman, Dr. Ostriker to post a similar
request, but I seen it has already been done for me.  We, as another
astronomical institution, are mostly a Fortran shop (personally I'm a FORTH
person, with a bit of C, but that's another matter).  Like it or not FORTRAN
is as close as there is to a universal astronomical programming language, which
(unfortunately)  is why most astronomical sites with Vaxes run VMS rather than
Unix. The same two questions asked above we would also like to ask.
-- 
Bill Sebok	Princeton Univ. Astrophysics
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