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From: rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (rogerson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: cheap FORTRAN compilers
Keywords: are there any?
Message-ID: <2304@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 7 Dec 88 15:48:23 GMT
References: <1357@nesac2.UUCP>
Reply-To: rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM ()
Organization: NCR Corp., Engineering & Manufacturing - Columbia, SC
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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.
>
	Microsoft has special Educational Discounts on almost all of its
	software.  Most of the time this discount is almost 50%.  Have
	her 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.  

	What major is she and/or what class is she taking?  If it is the 
	intro EE Fortran class, then it is not worth wasting any money over.
	The assignments are short and easy.  If she is a EE I think that the
	HP Vectra lab in the EE building has Fortran.

	If none of this works, I may have an old version of Microsoft Fortran
	I can sale for a low price.  Microsoft will allow me to transfer 
	ownership to your daughter and she could upgrade it for the normal
	user upgrade price.  

	-----Dale
		Rogerson----(GA Tech Grad '88)