🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Oct12.195247.15624@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> S_TITZ@iravcl.ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz) writes:
>>  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!  :-)
>
>Well, just this morning, I was asked for advice by a math student
>which of the two beginner programming courses he should take -
>FORTRAN or PASCAL. I do not repeat here what I explained to him why he
>should take Pascal, I assume you know the arguments ;-) but the fact
>remains that universities today still offer beginner programming
>courses in Fortran. Sigh :-(

I hope that GNU f77 will be a very high class FORTRAN compiler.
There's wads of heavy duty numerical code that just can't be written off,
or ported to C. A free, fast, numerically reliable compiler will be much
appreciated by the scientific and engineering community.

nope, FORTRAN ain't dead yet.
>
>MfG,
>        Olaf

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