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Date:      Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:59:08 +0200 (EET)
From:      Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To:        Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com>
Cc:        "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@nwlink.com>, cjclark@alum.mit.edu, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Language for Modeling Mechanical System
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000727155107.98205E-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
In-Reply-To: <397F4DDC.9A5A4D6F@nisser.com>

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On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Roelof Osinga wrote:

> "Jason C. Wells" wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> > 
> > > It's what FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation) was made for.
> > 
> > Ughh! I haven't heard much good about Fortran. To be fair, I have never
> > looked at it. I hear that the syntax is _very_ terse. I will take a closer
> > look at it.
> 
> Nope. That would be APL. Nothing wrong with Fortran. The versions
> after IV are quite nice, actually. At least, from what I've seen and
> read about them. Haven't used Fortran after IV. The GNU has a
> F77 translator. Turns F77 into C.
> 

GNU has f2c? I'm pretty sure f2c is independent of GNU.

> But something like MathCalc would probably be more efficient.
> Especially when there are lots of models available.
> 
> Roelof
> 
> -- 
> Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is.
> 



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