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From: gwyn@brl-vgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: RE: UNIX for physicists (attn:finn)
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Date: Sun, 17-Jun-84 03:58:16 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 17 03:58:16 1984
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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..