Re: Wanted: recommend reliable FORTRAN compiler for DOS

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From: Jerzy Tarasiuk
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 13:05

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>>>>> On 30 Sep 92 02:40:33 GMT, rebeccal@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Rebecca S. Lawrence) said:
RSL>  The Engineering department at Virginia Tech requires that freshman engineers
RSL> use WatFor as their fortran compiler. I have heard varing reports on how 
RSL> good it is. Keep in mind that they get the educational version. But it should

Oh, no! I remember WATFOR (Waterloo Fortran) is most unreliable compiler 
I have seen. It has one nice thing: can edit program like in Turbo
Pascal/C/... but results from running correct program compiled using it
are usually incorrect! Most reliable I have seen is LAHEY, next is
Microsoft Fortran (but MS F. doesn't detect integer overflow).

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Subject: Re: Wanted:  recommend reliable FORTRAN compiler for DOS
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