From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 27 6:59:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3269F37B8AF for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 06:59:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA01076; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:59:08 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:59:08 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Roelof Osinga Cc: "Jason C. Wells" , cjclark@alum.mit.edu, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Language for Modeling Mechanical System In-Reply-To: <397F4DDC.9A5A4D6F@nisser.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message