Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!sun!chiba!khb From: khb%chiba@Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - SPD Languages Marketing -- MTS) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: Where are the fortran jobs? Message-ID: <105002@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 16 May 89 05:24:22 GMT References: Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: khb@sun.UUCP (Keith Bierman - SPD Languages Marketing -- MTS) Distribution: usa Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 47 In article wjones@andromeda (the ronin) writes: > > I was wondering .. Do companys out there in the real world still > use fortran. >* W.E.Jones A.K.A. The Ronin |"I'm a certified nut * >* U.S.Mail 91 Ackerson St. Hackensack New Jersey 07601| with a history of * >* "Nan ja desu karma ka? Karma desu karma. Neh?" | violence!!!" * >* "Lesson #1: Never no never underestimate your own stupitity"| M. Keaton * Well, we (Sun) are selling lots of Fortran compilers ... so there is serious interest in compiling codes :> From the questions we get asked by customers, it would appear that there is serious development work going on. Having been on the customer side until the last couple of years, I know that we did all development in Fortran for a variety of reasons: 1) always available on target system 2) most portable (if used in a disiplined fashion) 3) best quality of optimization on sophisticated systems. Now that I am a vendor, I fully appreciate why #3 is not likely to change in my lifetime. The next rev of X3.9 (the ISO token for Fortran) provides a nice growth path for the language, all things considered. When the start of the public review period is known, it will be posted here (with instructions in how to get a copy). If you don't mind learning about the OLD proposal, Metcalf and Reid's book "Fortran 8x Explained" is much better reading. The standard itself is not meant for humans :> M&R will have a revised edition; but it is not likely to come out before public review is over. My personal recomendation is to get the book now; get the standard later and then comment as required. Cheerio. Keith H. Bierman |*My thoughts are my own. Only my work belongs to Sun* It's Not My Fault | Marketing Technical Specialist ! kbierman@sun.com I Voted for Bill & | Languages and Performance Tools. Opus (* strange as it may seem, I do more engineering now *)