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In article <1992Oct12.000513.10001@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> bradleyt@spot.Colorado.EDU (Todd Bradley) writes:

   Well, I just recently subscribed to this newsgroup (about a week
   ago), so forgive me if this is a dead topic.  I remember some
   talk about a year ago that there was some GNU work being done
   to integrate the f2c program, which was recently (a year or so ago)
   made public domain, into the GNU C compiler.  However, I haven't
   heard a thing about it since then.  Is anyone working on it still
   or has the subject been dropped? 

GNU Fortran is now in alpha test.  It isn't an integration of f2c code,
rather a whole new front-end on top of the common back end shared by
GNU C, GNU C++, and GNU Objective-C (plus GNU Pascal, GNU Ada, whatever
else comes along).  But it does currently expect a run-time library
compatible with f2c libraries for linking programs output by GNU Fortran.

If you want to keep up on info regarding GNU Fortran prior to the
announcement of beta test (a public release), send email asking to be
added to the GNU Fortran Mailing List to:

    info-gnu-fortran-request@prep.ai.mit.edu

As far as an answer to the question "Is Fortran dead?", I can only
suggest that if the availability of GNU Fortran doesn't kill it,
nothing will!  :-)
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James Craig Burley, Software Craftsperson    burley@gnu.ai.mit.edu
Member of the League for Programming Freedom (LPF)