From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 27 8:47:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c1870039.telekabel.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D76F37B990 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 08:47:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA97589; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:47:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <39805A78.41CDDEB4@nisser.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:51:20 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Narvi Cc: "Jason C. Wells" , cjclark@alum.mit.edu, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Language for Modeling Mechanical System References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Narvi wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Roelof Osinga wrote: > > > 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. I stand corrected. Chapter 21 of the UNIX programmer's manual, revised and expanded version: 'A portable Fortran 77 Compiler'. Page 401. Like I said, it's been a while ;). Mind you the UNIX compiler listens to the name of 'f77' which in turn drives f2c. It's even, or still, part of FreeBSD! Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. UPC/Chello home http://nisser.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message