Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site brl-vgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!brl-vgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-vgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: RE: UNIX for physicists (attn:finn) Message-ID: <3438@brl-vgr.ARPA> Date: Sun, 17-Jun-84 03:58:16 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-vgr.3438 Posted: Sun Jun 17 03:58:16 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 08:52:46 EDT References: <90@utastro.UUCP>, <374@astrovax.UUCP> Organization: Ballistics Research Lab Lines: 10 Indeed the 4.2BSD f77 is bad. So is the UNIX System V Release 1 f77, although its worst problems were supposedly fixed in Release 1.1 (and therefore also in Release 2). 4.2BSD sites can try to obtain the new f77 from Berkeley (rotsa ruck) or wait for the Release 2 edition of the BRL UNIX System V emulation. Anyone who writes new code in ordinary Fortran when C is available should be made to justify the practice (the two reasons I can think of are built-in complex operations and better support for arrays). I too started out as a Fortran physicist, but I learned better..