dukelow@noscvax.UUCP (Robert A. Dukelow) (10/02/85)
Does anyone know if a compiler named WATFOR is available for either PC-DOS or CP/M? If so, where? My daughter is learning it in her high school class and would like to have it at home to make life easier. --Bob Dukelow (dukelow@nosc)
campbell@watdcsu.UUCP (Colin Campbell [DCS]) (10/07/85)
> Does anyone know if a compiler named WATFOR is available for either > PC-DOS or CP/M? If so, where? My daughter is learning it in her high > school class and would like to have it at home to make life easier. > --Bob Dukelow (dukelow@nosc) WATFOR77 is available for PC-DOS from: WATCOM Products Inc 415 Phillip Street Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3X2 (519) 886-3700 Telex 06-955 458 It is available for other systems, too (e.g. IBM VM/CMS), but I don't think it runs under CP/M. It supports the full FORTRAN 77 standard. Your daugther may be using WATFOR on a DEC mini in which case I believe it would be a FORTRAN 66 compiler (from the same people). (btw WATCOM Products markets software developed by the WATCOM Group, as well as software developed at the University of Waterloo - where I am employed.)
Kushall.henr@XEROX.ARPA (10/07/85)
WATFOR stands for WATerlooFORtran and is an interactive Fortran interputer. It was developed by Waterloo University in Canada. The first machine to use it was the Commadore 9000 (Super PET). I don't know if ever was made available for any other machines. Ed
young@UCI-ICSC.ARPA (Michal Young) (10/08/85)
WATFOR was NOT first implemented on the SuperPET. It's immediate successor, WATFIV, is mentioned in the 1979 edition of the dragon book (Aho and Ullman), so WATFOR was around a long time before SuperPET. The version I am aware of was available on IBM mainframes and was not an interpreter; it was a very fast compiler optimized for handling multiple compiles submitted in a batch. It was specially designed for student use, concentrating on quick compile and good error checking rather than optimized object code. --Michal Young, young@uci
earl@BRL.ARPA (VLD/ASB) (10/08/85)
I used WATFOR/WATFIV back in '72 on U of Mich's IBM 360/67. Presumably that predates the "Commadore 9000 (Super PET)."
toma@tekchips.UUCP (Tom Almy) (10/10/85)
In article <1953@brl-tgr.ARPA> Kushall.henr@XEROX.ARPA writes: >WATFOR stands for WATerlooFORtran and is an interactive Fortran interputer. >It was developed by Waterloo University in Canada. > >The first machine to use it was the Commadore 9000 (Super PET). >I don't know if ever was made available for any other machines. > >Ed Gee, I used WATFOR in 1968 on an IBM 360. They (Univ. of Waterloo) also released in about that time frame WATFIV (WATerloo Fortran IV) and a terrific Assembler. I was very impressed with their compilers. Tom
medin@noscvax.UUCP (Ted Medin) (10/10/85)
In article <1953@brl-tgr.ARPA> Kushall.henr@XEROX.ARPA writes: >WATFOR stands for WATerlooFORtran and is an interactive Fortran interputer. >It was developed by Waterloo University in Canada. > >The first machine to use it was the Commadore 9000 (Super PET). >I don't know if ever was made available for any other machines. > I first used WATFOR on an IBM 360/65 in '66 or so.
medin@noscvax.UUCP (Ted Medin) (10/10/85)
In article <1980@brl-tgr.ARPA> young@UCI-ICSC.ARPA (Michal Young) writes: > >WATFOR was NOT first implemented on the SuperPET. It's immediate successor, >WATFIV, is mentioned in the 1979 edition of the dragon book (Aho and >Ullman), so WATFOR was around a long time before SuperPET. The version I am >aware of was available on IBM mainframes and was not an interpreter; it was >a very fast compiler optimized for handling multiple compiles submitted in a >batch. It was specially designed for student use, concentrating on quick >compile and good error checking rather than optimized object code. I believe you are wrong about the interpreter part. But you are right about all the rest. It was the best diagnostic compiler/interpreter I have ever worked with.