Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 09:20:46 +0100 (BST) From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk> To: chris@uminac.com, sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu Cc: mexas@bristol.ac.uk, freebsd-fortran@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why fortran mailing list? Message-ID: <201307100820.r6A8KkNm099328@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20130709233149.GA93320@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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From sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu Wed Jul 10 00:33:37 2013 On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 07:24:12PM -0400, Christopher J. Umina wrote: > Fortran is pretty much a standard in the scientific world and I for > one have been quite upset about the fact that I'm constantly forced > away from FreeBSD for such things. Needless to say I was quite > surprised that a list was created specifically for Fortran discussion, > but I'm also very excited to see the level of interest in the > community. > Please, don't top-post, it looses context. In fact, I've deleted all of the previous context. :-) Not sure why you're forced away from FreeBSD because of Fortran. gfortran has been a part of GCC since 2005. Although the first year or two of gfortran's life saw a large number of bugsi and patches, since gcc 4.4,x ori 4.5.x, she's been a very good compiler. Right now I need coarrays, so I have to use other compilers on linux. But a compiler alone is not enough. I need a complete tightly integrated fortran environment, with libraries and applications. Many libs/apps available on linux are not in ports yet. One example is Trilinos, http://trilinos.sandia.gov/packages/fortrilinos/. I think bf@ has been working on a port. But there are more, I just can't think of any at the moment. Then there are things like legacy code. For example, I myself maintain math/slatec, which is 1980-1990 fortran 77 library with over 1400 subroutines. I found this library useful at some point. But the code is old and completely unmaintained, perhaps there are better newer alternatives. Should it stay in ports for now? Anton
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