mcarrick@gara.une.oz.au ( ANSC) (11/27/90)
Can anyone help us with some recommendations for Fortran for MS Windows 3.0? Also comments on the relative virtues of Lahey and Watfor would be helpful Thanks Mick Carrick
ndoduc@framentec.fr (Nhuan Doduc) (11/27/90)
In <4784@gara.une.oz.au> mcarrick@gara.une.oz.au ( ANSC) writes: >Can anyone help us with some recommendations for Fortran for MS >Windows 3.0? Also comments on the relative virtues of Lahey and >Watfor would be helpful As far as I understand, Lahey in real or protected mode is a very good, and fast, compiler, although we may say so of MicroWay, FTN77 ... I'v just run a benchmark with watfor but do not have an opportunity to touch it much, so I've no comment. About Fortran for MSWindows: (I'm afraid that I'm erring here!) only MS C versions 5.1 and 6 have Windows flags and MS Fortran 5.x doesn't yet have those switchs. I know of no other fortran that has those : c'est le dernier de mes souhaits ! --nh Nhuan DODUC, Framentec-Cognitech, Paris, France, ndoduc@framentec.fr or ndoduc@cognitech.fr, Association Francaise des Utilisateurs d'Unix, France, doduc@afuu.fr PS: I wonder whether MS Fortran version >= 6 will have dos-extended mode ?
sichermn@beach.csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman) (11/28/90)
In article <1553@ftc.framentec.fr> ndoduc@framentec.fr (Nhuan Doduc) writes: >In <4784@gara.une.oz.au> mcarrick@gara.une.oz.au ( ANSC) writes: >>Can anyone help us with some recommendations for Fortran for MS >>Windows 3.0? Also comments on the relative virtues of Lahey and >>Watfor would be helpful > ... deleted ... > >About Fortran for MSWindows: (I'm afraid that I'm erring here!) only MS C >versions 5.1 and 6 have Windows flags and MS Fortran 5.x doesn't yet have >those switchs. I know of no other fortran that has those : c'est le dernier >de mes souhaits ! But MS Fortran can be linked with MS C by using interface statements (yes this is non-standard, but so is Windows). Does this solve the needs for switches or is it a main program issue ? (excude ignorance please) > >PS: I wonder whether MS Fortran version >= 6 will have dos-extended mode ? I wonder if anyone at MS is even doing anything about Fortran or just waiting for ANSI 90 version to make it worthwhile. I have my doubts about dos-extended because MS has a strong not-invented/controlled here prejudice and donnt expect major dos-dependent changes until dos 5.0 released and the DPMI spec is more formalized and complete.
hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au (Roger Hadgraft) (11/28/90)
In article <4784@gara.une.oz.au>, mcarrick@gara.une.oz.au ( ANSC) writes: > Can anyone help us with some recommendations for Fortran for MS > Windows 3.0? Also comments on the relative virtues of Lahey and > Watfor would be helpful > Thanks > Mick Carrick At the moment you can't write all of a Windows program in Fortran. However, you can do mixed language programming by using MS C for the Windows bit, and MS Fortran for the number crunching. Microsoft intend releasing a WIndows compatible version of their Fortran sometime next year :-). (BTW, I haven't actually done this myself. I'm just quoting one of the MS gurus I heard last week). -- Roger Hadgraft | hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au Lecturer in Civil Engineering | Monash University | phone: +61 3 565 4983 Clayton, Vic. 3168. Australia. | fax: +61 3 565 4944 or 3409