taylor@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Ross Taylor) (08/15/90)
I have only recently discovered the Fortran net so please forgive me if
I am asking some old questions.
1. I get the impression from the postings I have read that most of you
are programming Fortran for unix based workstations and
multiprocessor computers. I, however, prefer to use a 386 PC and
have acquired a compiler for that architecture (FTN77 distributed in
the USA by OTG systems but originating at Salford University in the
UK). I am interested in comments of users of other 386 specific
compilers, especially the new WATCOM F77/386. Has anybody out there
used it yet?
2. There is a lot written in some of the computer magazines about
Object Oriented Programming (OOP). So far, I have either not
understood the articles or have been left wondering why there is
such a big fuss about this. Is this "new" style of programming
really fundamentally different from what good FORTRAN programmers
have been doing for decades (creating complex programs from well
tested subroutines and functions)?
Ross Taylor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 13699
email: taylor@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (internet)ercs50@castle.ed.ac.uk (Simon Lawrence) (03/06/91)
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