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From: dd@beta.lanl.gov (Dan Davison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: cheap FORTRAN compilers
Summary: Lahey Personal Fortran, $99.00
Keywords: are there any?
Message-ID: <22946@beta.lanl.gov>
Date: 11 Dec 88 05:51:56 GMT
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Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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I would recommend the Lahey Personal Fortran at $99.00 US, which
is a hard price to beat for a full fortran compiler.  It doesn't
do coprocessors and the more advanced 386 instructions, but what
do you want for $99.00?

I would *strongly* recommend avoiding MicroSloth Fortrash at all
costs.  Use Turbo C instead.  An unbelievably bad compiler, from
version 1 to version 4.
-- 
dan davison/theoretical biology/t-10 ms k710/los alamos national laboratory
los alamos, nm 875545/dd@lanl.gov (arpa)/dd@lanl.uucp(new)/..cmcl2!lanl!dd
'The true mark of intelligence is an unwillingness to fill in the many
gaps in our understanding with a set of irrational beliefs'(Keats,paraphrased)