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From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Fortran on PC (was: Re: FORTRAN horrors)
Message-ID: <176@obie.UUCP>
Date: 25 Apr 88 06:17:52 GMT
References: <574@a.UUCP> <44400019@hcx2> <1405@microsoft.UUCP>
Organization: the Well of Souls
Lines: 17
Summary: Yep, but not willingly :-)

In article <1405@microsoft.UUCP>, bobal@microsoft.UUCP (Bob Allison) writes:
> So anyway, does anyone on the net do any FORTRAN programming on a PC? 

Yep, we do.  Some of the old guys around here started it when they
were "stranded" with these "dumb little machines."  Now most of them
no longer consider them "dumb little machines," but they are scared to
death to learn a new language.  Us "young'uns" are dragging them
kicking and screaming into C, but it isn't easy.

We even use your employer's Fortran compiler!  I'm impressed, MS F77
4.0 is really good; a vast improvement over 3.3, which I used in
college.  We use them for high-speed data acquisition and analysis of
the collected data, amongst other things.
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