From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 26 22:55:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1B7A837B91A for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 22:55:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 90833 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2000 05:55:48 -0000 Received: from theory8.physics.iisc.ernet.in (144.16.71.128) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 27 Jul 2000 05:55:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 7581 invoked by uid 211); 27 Jul 2000 05:55:45 -0000 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:25:45 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Roelof Osinga Cc: "Jason C. Wells" , cjclark@alum.mit.edu, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Language for Modeling Mechanical System Message-ID: <20000727112544.B7570@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <397F4DDC.9A5A4D6F@nisser.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <397F4DDC.9A5A4D6F@nisser.com>; from roelof@nisser.com on Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 10:45:16PM +0200 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.0.32 i486 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Roelof Osinga said on Jul 26, 2000 at 22:45:16: > 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. You're probably talking about f2c. Actually, they have a g77 compiler (bundled with egcs and gcc 2.95), which uses the gcc compiler back-end but doesn't do any intermediate translation to c. It seems to produce faster results than f2c. But it's not great, I think it's slower than the gcc C compiler. If you have access to an alpha, Compaq's (originally Digital) fortran for alpha/linux compiler is available as a free download; I don't know whether it works on FreeBSD. It's supposed to be about the best Fortran compiler around. But I don't think fortran is any help at all for symbolic manipulation, which I thought was your original requirement. It's certainly used a lot for numbercrunching. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message