[comp.lang.fortran] fortran 8x compiler

kopaz@garfield.RDL.COM (John 'Echo' Kopaz) (07/27/88)

i just recently aquired the book _fortran 8x explained_
by metcalf and reid, oxford press 1987. (i highly recomend it.) 

i have an alliant that uses the 8x std (although i haven't checked 
to see how close it abides to it) and would like to use 8x on the 
other machines.  so....  i was wandering if there were any implementations
of 8x available for vaxen and suns (3 and 4).  

a sun4 implementation is my main concern because this machine is my other
compute server.  

(i realize that the std is not fixed yet, so the implentations might not
be completely compatable.)

		tanx
		echo

ps.
could someone email me a brief update on what the x3j3 committee is doing.

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dd@beta.lanl.gov (Dan Davison) (07/30/88)

In article <133@garfield.RDL.COM>, kopaz@garfield.RDL.COM (John 'Echo' Kopaz) writes:
> 
> i was wandering if there were any implementations
> of 8x available for vaxen and suns (3 and 4).  
> 
> a sun4 implementation is my main concern because this machine is my other
> compute server.  
> 
> could someone email me a brief update on what the x3j3 committee is doing.
> john a. kopaz				| 

The X3J3 committee met in May and meets again next week (if I remember
correctly).  The committee has gotten some 600 comments, 400 before
the deadline.

A privately circulated summary of the last meeting is somewhat omnious.
After reading it, my opinion is that the proposed standard is DOA;
they'll probably have to chuck it out and start again.  I personally
favor them adopting the F77 standard as a base and adding bits,
pointers, and includes.  

As I said in my comments to the committee, nice language, too bad
it's not Fortran.


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