amitava@ei.ecn.purdue.edu (Amitava Das) (06/13/91)
Fortran for IBM Compatible
Can someone please explain what are the basic differences between the
above two fortran compilers for PC. the former seems a lot cheaper than
the latter.
thanks a lot.
amitava@ecn.purdue.edudlindsle@afit.af.mil (David T. Lindsley) (06/13/91)
I haven't worked with Lahey, but several people I know and trust have, amd they _all_ say it's better than MS Fortran. (We're talking about the full-blown version.) I have worked with MS Fortran (v4.01, not 5), and I wasn't overly impressed. It didn't include any of the extensions from MIL-STD 1753 (DO-WHILE, ENDDO). I couldn't get their MAKE utility to work either. The manual describes it as operating almost exactly like the Unix MAKE -- this would have been nice, but I certainly couldn't get it to do that. Dependencies had to be specified in reverse order; macro substitution was buggy; if the first object file didn't need to be recompiled, the whole thing aborted... -- Dave Lindsley #24601# OPINIONS. MINE. dlindsle@blackbird.afit.af.mil (The words don't come no smaller.) ?? lamroN eb yhW ??