Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!pprg.unm.edu!hc!ames!amdahl!pyramid!prls!philabs!ttidca!hollombe 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 Lines: 25 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. -- The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, hollombe@ttidca.tti.com) Illegitimati Nil Citicorp(+)TTI Carborundum 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. (213) 452-9191, x2483 Santa Monica, CA 90405 {csun|philabs|psivax}!ttidca!hollombe