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Article #335Re: Any decent Fortrans under Unix ? Which machine ?
From: Geoff Kuenning
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1986 21:39
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1986 21:39
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In article <404@ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@ucbopal.UUCP (Mike Meyer)
catches me in a rather overblown and obviously unresearched statement:
>> As Gene
>> Spafford pointed out a few months back, there are *no* current Unix
>> Fortrans that have numerically accurate libraries...
I stand chastised; in fact there *are* accurate Fortran compilers
available under Unix. Mike mentions that
> DEC is selling their VMS
> FORTRAN compiler for Ultrix, and Cray provides CFT (the standard Cray
> FORTRAN compiler) with Unicos.
and he's right; these are compilers that have been written carefully.
In DEC's case, this was done (at great expense; VMS Fortran was
written in BLISS-32) because of f77's low quality. The moral is that
you should be careful, but you *can* find a decent fortran under Unix.
(In the 68000 world I think fairly highly of Absoft's compiler, though
I'm not sure if they exist any more.)
--
Geoff Kuenning
{hplabs,ihnp4}!trwrb!desint!geoff
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