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From: rodgers@cca.ucsf.edu (Rick Rodgers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Fortran and Pascal
Summary: Fortran and ditroff on NeXT... where is NeXT to answer our questions?
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Date: 4 Nov 88 20:27:35 GMT
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In article <3f6ce6e8.59b7@sauron.engin.umich.edu>, jfm@ruddles.sprl.umich.edu.engin.umich.edu (John F. Mansfield) writes:
> 
> 
> OK, now for a major question, not all of us have time to rewrite all our
> old code in C. So the question is what are the compilers that will be 
> available for the nExt machine? 
> 
> Sorry to mention Fortran, but I use it.

We use both Fortran and ditroff quite unapologetically!  Many UNIX-based
systems (such as the superb S statistical package from AT&T Bell Labs)
rely on the presence of Fortran.  The word we have
from the local NeXT people is that Green Hills (can anyone out there evaluate
this firm for us?) will be supplying a Fortran; they also anticipate a third
party vendor for ditroff.  Why is the BSD f77 not considered part of the
MACH/UNIX system?

Given the amount of interest in this newsgroup and NeXT's emphasis on
networking, why aren't THEY reading this newsgroup and answering these sort of
questions directly???

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University of California, San Francisco CA 94118  (415)476-8910
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