From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 14 19:29:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA20500 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 19:29:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usr09.primenet.com (tlambert@usr09.primenet.com [206.165.6.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA20495 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 19:29:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA11441; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 19:29:27 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199709150229.TAA11441@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: lib/libF77 and lib/libI77 To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 02:29:25 +0000 (GMT) Cc: jbryant@tfs.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <6830.874286294@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Sep 14, 97 06:18:14 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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.