Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:25:45 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com> Cc: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@nwlink.com>, cjclark@alum.mit.edu, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Language for Modeling Mechanical System Message-ID: <20000727112544.B7570@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <397F4DDC.9A5A4D6F@nisser.com>; from roelof@nisser.com on Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 10:45:16PM %2B0200 References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000726101918.29085A-100000@utah> <397F4DDC.9A5A4D6F@nisser.com>
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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
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