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From: stever@tektronix.UUCP (Steven D. Rogers)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: RE: IBM PC FORTRAN's  (some old and some new info)
Message-ID: <5744@tektronix.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 13:33:28 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 23 13:33:28 1985
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you ought to check out F77L by Lahey Computer Systems
                               31244 Palos Verdes West
                               Suite 243
                               Rancho Palos Verdes, CA  90274
                               (213) 541-1200

they claim to have been serving the FORTRAN community since l969, 
which is certainly more than Microsoft can say!

F77L is a full implementation of the F77 standard and beats
the IBM Professional FORTRAN; I don't know whether it has
all you want, but if they keep being so responsive to my
demands for features that I need in a FORTRAN compiler
I may have to finally buy it!

steve
tektronix!stever


p.s.  i own Microsoft FORTRAN 3.3
   
p.p.s. i am working on some benchmarks dealing with
       the difference in handling small and large arrays for
       MS 3.3 and Lahey


p.p.p.s.  below are some benchmark times for a 1700 line
          program


                          IBM         IBM          Lahey
                          2.0         P77          F77L
                          -----       -----        -----

Compile                   20:07       21:44        5:35

Execute                    3:32        2:04        2:03

 
note: times courtesy of Wayne Garber, coordinator for the
      FORTRAN SIG of the Portland IBM-PC Club