Xref: utzoo gnu.gcc:284 gnu.g++:113 Path: utzoo!telly!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!rutgers!elbereth.rutgers.edu!bschwart From: bschwart@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Barry Schwartz) Newsgroups: gnu.gcc,gnu.g++ Subject: GNU Fortran? Keywords: fortran Message-ID: Date: 21 Mar 89 08:46:55 GMT Organization: Rutgers Center for DSP Research, Piscataway, NJ Lines: 32 I suppose I am going to get flamed for posting this. But here I am, and I must have my say or let my thoughts eat at me. Some of us could benefit greatly from a GNU project Fortran compiler. The compiler would have to be compatible with both the old and new standards. Is anybody working on such a compiler? If not, does anybody want to try? Don't look at me. The only "compiler" I ever wrote was a little FORTH system (as a term project), and also much of a modified fig-FORTH for TRS-80 Model I. But that is completely different from writing a FORTRAN compiler. --------- Please don't flame me too much, fellow C and C++ programmers. It's just that Fortran is the language of numerical analysis. The standard numerical packages are written in Fortran; the IEEE digital signal processing programs are written in old Fortran. Besides, however much I love C and C++, I also like Fortran. --------- A GNU Fortran compiler would be a downright neat thing, I bet. Barry Schwartz bschwart@elbereth.rutgers.edu