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From: tower@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: gnu fortran on a Sun 3/60
Summary: gnu fortran does not yet exist.
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Date: 19 Oct 88 01:54:21 GMT
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In article <8810131711.AA00788@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu> gld@CUNIXD.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Gary L Dare) writes:
|Has anyone tried out gnu fortran on a Sun 3/60?  Is it as good
|or better than Sun's Fortran 77 compiler?  Since they've unbundled
|the software, and we're kind of broke, we're looking for a viable
|alternative.

To the best of mine and rms' knowledge, no one has done a Fortran front
end for the GNU Compiler yet.  If anyone knows of one, please let me know.

If anyone wants to volunteer, or if you want general information about
the project, ask:
	gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu

enjoy -len