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From: t19@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Geert J v Oldenborgh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: PD/shareware Fortran compiler for Atari ST needed
Message-ID: <802@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>
Date: 10 Mar 90 10:56:40 GMT
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Reply-To: t19@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Geert J v Oldenborgh)
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You must mean the 'Real Time Fortran', used among others by UA1 at CERN (the 
guys who discovered the W, the Z and damn nearly supersymmetry).  I have only 
seen it on a Mac.  It is known here as the 'ghost house'.  We never managed to 
get the 'savage' banchmark to run properly - it would not print 2 numbers (1 
was OK), but it has many extensions for real time control of equipment.

My 2c worth on the other 2:
Absoft: fast, extensions, very sloppy syntax checking, no GEM interface worth 
        speaking of (but who does GEM in Fortran?), cheap, no support.
Prospero: integrated environment (without 'make' and no way to hook mine in),
        slow, good debugger, good hooks to GEM, a bit more expensive.

Geert Jan van Oldenborgh (writing big numbercrunching programs on the ST)