Re: Fortran bashing in the MATLAB newsgroup

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:03:26 +0000 (UTC), Steven G. Kargl <kargl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <4RX9k.15914$IK1.5601@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Brian Salter-Duke <b_duke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
This was true while g77 was the
norm for a free compiler on linux, but of course is less true for
gfortran.

Can you expand on this comment? If g77 compiles a piece of
(standard conforming?) code then gfortran should also compile
the code.

It is the other way round I think. g77 was a F77 compiler and this
forced a lot of scientific code writers to stick with F77. With gfortran
they do not have to, but most in quantum chemistry seem to be doing so.
That is what I was trying to say.

gfortran does very well with F77 programs like GAMESS(US). It gives faster
executables than g77 and most other compilers.

Brian.


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