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From: lamson@sierra.uucp (scott h lamson)
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Subject: Re: FORTRAN 88
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Date: 26 Oct 88 02:00:51 GMT
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In-reply-to: mike@arizona.edu's message of 25 Oct 88 16:35:41 GMT


>Perhaps you would be more concerned if you weren't compiling on a
>Cray-2?
>  A lot of FORTRAN code runs
>  on machines several orders of magnitude slower than a CRAY-2.  
Given the estimates of how long some people say it will take to get
production F8x (current draft) compilers on the streets, this may not
be a problem.  Your opinion may differ, but I don't care about compile
time (within one order of magnitude) even though my primary software
development environment is a sun workstation.  (I guess about two
orders of magnitude slower than the Cray-2, but I haven't been
actively benchmarking things lately).
The language we select as a standard now will be in use from what...
1990 or 1991 up until 2000??  How many machines in 1995 will be slow
enough to make compiling F8x a REAL big problem?  


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