Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dayvb!afitamy!Jim.Locker
From: Jim.Locker@afitamy.fidonet.org (Jim Locker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Fortran options for the Amiga
Message-ID: <82.25D5867E@afitamy.fidonet.org>
Date: 9 Feb 90 14:35:18 GMT
Organization: AFIT Amiga Users BBS(AFITAUG), Dayton, Oh. (513) 252-7681
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Ed Berger writes:

** Quoting Ed Berger to All **
 >Every once in a while someone asks about fortran compilers 
 >for the amiga.
 >The following message appeared on comp.sys.next regarding a 
 >fortran to
 >C translator that is available for NeXt and other unix boxes. 
 > I would
 >love to see such ported to the amiga.  I do not feel competant 
 >to handle
 >the job at my current level of experience.  Any amiga wizards 
 >willing?
 >Jim Locker are you out there???
 >
** End of Quote **

Here I am.

I am definitely interested in a Fortran to C converter.  I have done enough 
with Fortran on the Amiga to believe that it is useful, but I am continually 
bothered by my inability to dynamically allocate memory for arrays in a 
Fortran acceptable fashion.  Any scheme that I come up with is non-standard 
code.

If I had such a translator that worked, the next version of Matlab would be in 
C, with all the evident advantages of that language.

My access to usenet is limited to this and comp.sys.amiga bases.  If someone 
could arrange to get me the source for this translator?   (Art Mercer, are you 
there??)

Jim Locker


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