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From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co>
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Subject: Re: Fortran in the base system (was Re: sysinstall)
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Steve Kargl wrote:
> 
> According to Pedro F. Giffuni:
> > Why hasn't anyone mentioned NAG ?
> >       http://www.nag.co.uk/
> >
> > It's in list of commercial FreeBSD software.
> >
> >       Pedro.
> 
> I have mentioned NAG.  NAG produces a native FreeBSD
> Fortran 90 compiler.  However, the last time I checked,
> NAG comes bundled with IMSL which drives the price up (~$900USD).
> Note: it is also difficult to get any pricing info from the URL.
> 
Sorry, I didn't see it. They also offered to provide maintainance for a
yearly fee. There is no FreeBSD version of Fortran 95: I guess if no one
buys it, we can expect this tendency to continue :(.

I did learn FORTRAN in the University, however the teacher insisted on
not teaching structured programming: the nice thing about FORTRAN 77. I
am pretty sure FORTRAN is still widely used, I even have some code from
an IEEE magazine somewhere, but at least in my school FORTRAN died with
VM/CMS.

	Pedro.

> 
> --
> Steve
> 
> finger kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu
> http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~clesceri/kargl.html

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