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bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:

>I hope you realize that there is much more to programming than just
>producing executables. For example, a significant portion of time is
>spent on debugging. It is _very_ difficult to debug with the f2c 
>translators. You must debug a barely readable code in C, rather than
>Fortran. As a debugger, GDB from the FSF is much inferior to PC debuggers
>such as CodeView from Microsoft.
The most superiour debugging tool is, IMHO, printf or any equal command or
function in any other language.

>optimizing compiler, but people need good debuggers to work efficiently.
>Thats where the FSF fails.
Go and write your own or change GDB. No one will stop you!

>Why did not the FSF did not write a decent FORTRAN compiler throughout 
>its existence ?
Let me guess, because it has no high priority?

>Even now there is only a single person involves in it and it proceeds very
>slowly.
Then why don't you give that poor soul some help?

>Probably because FOrtran is not a hacker's language, but many people need it.
And many don't.

Greetings,
Peter Busser