Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!info-mac From: info-mac@uw-beaver Newsgroups: fa.info-mac Subject: RE: (Gulp) Fortran Message-ID: <372@uw-beaver> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 01:22:02 EST Article-I.D.: uw-beave.372 Posted: Fri Jan 11 01:22:02 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 02:59:24 EST Sender: daemon@uw-beaver Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 21 From: Leonard.Hamey@CMU-CS-IUS2 Don't be afraid to admit interest in Fortran! Somebody has to use it. I have had a go at MacFortran (from Absoft Corp, 4268 N Woodward, Royal Oak, MI 48072). It is a fairly complete Fortran 77 implementation, with some of the annoyances of Fortran 77 included (e.g. Cannot equivalence an array of integer*1 to a character string). It is disk based so there does not seem to be any problems with compiling large programs. It is quite fast. It produces stand-alone Macintosh applications. It has very limited access to the toolbox - not really designed for writing Mac style programs with windowing etc - however, you can do graphics, and if you have a Fortran 77 program to get running then this one will probably do the job quite nicely. Cost: $295. I haven't tried the other Fortran which runs under ther p-system, but I hate to think of having my Fortran programs unable to read Macintosh files. Leonard Hamey lgh@cmu-cs-ius2.arpa The above opinions are my own....