Re: Surprise

J. F. Cornwall wrote:
kronecker@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Aug 22, 1:34 am, "J. F. Cornwall" <JCornw...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Luka Djigas wrote:

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:53:48 -0500, Gary Scott
<garylsc...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


This is not even close to actual usage of Fortran. It was widely used
as the main systems programming language in addition to assembly on many
computing systems of the past.


Please, elaborate. What do you mean under "main systesm programming
language" ?


The main language used for all sorts of applications, as well as many
utilities used by the OS, or as a suite of tools and library routines
provided by the OS for use by applications. That's what *we* used the
term for, at any rate (USAF weather computing facility).

The applications written in Fortran included number-crunching forecast
models, homegrown database systems, real-time communications
(HyperChannel between the mainframes, and assorted external comm line
links to outside systems), and a few other smaller programs for
maintaining routing libraries and so on. There were numerous libraries
of useful routines mostly written in Fortran, some in assembler, and
even a little bit of C.

And, in my current job, we use Fortran and a bit of C to run a water
database with real-time data input from satellite, an entire suite of
applications, and human interface programs - almost all of which is in
Fortran. We use C where it's needed, but I'd say over 95% of the code
is Fortran. Embedded dynamic SQL (Ingres RDBMS), number-crunching
(mainly for statistics), human interface handling, the whole range of
things a general purpose language should cover...

Jim




Best regards
Luka



What sort of GUI do you have? Or is it only numbers you have as an
output?

K.


Who the hell needs a GUI? We do just fine with Unix xterm display windows and a character-based interface. Not every program needs to be graphical to be successful...

:) well they do in my environment...but it's extremely easy to add one, even a fully featured one with some of the gui builders available.


Jim


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