From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 26 13:41:34 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 37AA237BE2F for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 13:41:30 -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 WAA92614; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 22:41:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <397F4DDC.9A5A4D6F@nisser.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 22:45:16 +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: "Jason C. Wells" Cc: 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 "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. 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