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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: cheap FORTRAN compilers
Keywords: are there any?
Message-ID: <3527@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 8 Dec 88 20:54:49 GMT
References: <1357@nesac2.UUCP> <2304@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath)
Organization: The Cat Factory
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In article <2304@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM> rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM () writes:
}In article <1357@nesac2.UUCP> jec@nesac2.UUCP (John Carter ATLN SADM) writes:
}>I realize that FORTRAN is not a popular as C/Pascal/BASIC and that Borland
}>probably won't produce "TURBO FORTRAN", but that's tha price range of
}>interest to my daughter and a couple of other students at Georgia Tech.

}... check at the Georgia Tech book store for Microsoft Fortran
}it is about the best one out there and includes the CodeView
}debugger.  I do not know what the list price is so this may still
}be expensive.

Just a caveat:  I got a copy of Microsoft's FORTRAN/80 for my Osborne-1 a
few years ago.  I found it unacceptably buggy.  In particular, the printer
control codes didn't work as documented, or according to the FORTRAN
standard for that matter.  That made output formatting difficult and full
screen applications nearly impossible.

That was long ago on a Z80 based CP/M machine.  I've no idea what their
current FORTRAN for the PC is like.

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