Re: Is FORTRAN a dying language? (not a troll)

From: Toon Moene (toon_at_moene.indiv.nluug.nl)
Date: 05/10/04


Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 23:32:40 +0200

Madhusudan Singh wrote:

> On Monday 10 May 2004 10:33, Hendrik van Hees (hees@comp.tamu.edu) held

>>For this tasks, g77 is fine for me. When there is the
>>Fortran 90/95 compiler available, I'll have a look at it.

> Same here. I am waiting for them to release their first complete version
> (which might be pretty close, considering the rate at which submitted bugs
> seem to be fixed).

Yeah, keep trying the compiler and send in those bug reports - I really,
really regret having no time to fix bugs (until after the GCC summit,
http://www.gccsummit.org) ...

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