Re: Compaq Visual Fortran discontinued: upgrade to Intel Visual Fortran?

Thank you very much, everybody, for your responses so far. While
interesting, I regret to say that none of the responses so far has been very
helpful for my decision and I'm sure that's entirely my fault for not being
specific enough. Let me try again.
(1) More speed is nice, but it's not really an issue since I learned a
long time ago that this can easily become a game of diminishing returns.
I'll gladly sacrifice a factor of 2 in speed if I can have code that's easy
to debug and maintain.
(2) Is the integrated editor/debugger environment of IVF similar/different
from CVF? If different, what are the differences?
(3) Does windows-specific code compile (i.e., code that uses graphics
routines)? Are there any problems linking the CVF-specific libraries? (Or
are there similar ones in IVF?)
(4) Are there other issues with code portability?

I should say, that for my present needs CVF is perfectly okay. My question
therefore is: Should I shell out $650 now for an upgrade to IVF, to preserve
the option of further upgrades down the road, or should I simply stick with
CVF for now and perhaps at some later stage, if the need arises, buy a full
version of IVF.

Thank you.
--hh



"NN" <not@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ZbGif.18969$ih5.10988@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi,
> I use the latest version of Compaq Visual Fortran on a Windows system. CVF
> development is being discontinued as of the end of this year. They offer
> an upgrade to Intel Visual Fortran 9.0. Any thoughts on whether this is
> advisable/desirable/necessary would be highly appreciated. Does anybody
> have experiences going that route already?
> Thanks a lot.
> --hh
> --
>
>
>


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