Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 02:29:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: jbryant@tfs.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lib/libF77 and lib/libI77 Message-ID: <199709150229.TAA11441@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <6830.874286294@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Sep 14, 97 06:18:14 pm
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> I don't know about you, but assuming that any reasonable percentage of > FreeBSD fortran programmers has made it past that chain of hurdles > rather strains credulity, and I don't think we're any closer to the > answer as to just *what* these directories are doing there! They > don't build and they're not called by anything I can find, so rather > than just tossing off a knee-jerk response in reaction a set of file > names you recognise, why not tell me exactly *how* these files are > being used by FreeBSD if you want to be of some actual help here, OK? :-) Personally, I still do physics simulation code in FORTAN. It's the best language for it, and the Lawrence Berkeley Labs Physics libraries are all in FORTRAN. The one thing that I do different is I maintain my own versions of the FORTRAN (libF77) and Intrinsic functions (libI77) libraries because they don't have linear congruential random number generation and a number of Floating Point issues. But I think the FORTRAN libraries, and the f2c translator should be part of the base system. Real UNIX systems come with a C compiler, a FORTRAN compiler, and a Franz LISP interpreter. That's how you know they are the real McCoy. (Yes, I know Solaris and SCO don't come with these -- what does that say to you?) Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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