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From: finkel@TAURUS.BITNET
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Subject: fortran compiler for C64
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Date: 26 Dec 88 21:48:03 GMT
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>I've been looking around for a long time for a FORTRAN compiler for the
>Commodore 64. Nobody seems to sell one. Does anybody know if there IS a
>FORTRAN compiler out for the 64?
>
>                                             Keith Pomakis.
>                                             pomakis@dalcsug.UUCP
>
>

There IS a C64 fortran compiler. I don't have it, but I've seen it.
It's called 64TRAN, and it's written by Trident software. from the little
time I played with it, I can say that it generates pretty compact code,
if you don't try using libraries. (If I remember corectly , a null program
was about 200 bytes, and generally, programs were quite slow. But, a demo
program that used a string library went up to 70 blocks ).
Code is quite was too.

Don't expect the compiler to support complex numbers or other advanced
feature

Udi

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