remym@tekig5.TEK.COM (Remy Malan) (01/12/87)
One of the engineers in our group is taking a DSP course this semester and the instructor said that all coding for the course must be done in FORTRASH (whoops, I mean FORTRAN! :-). I have seen ads for Microsoft FORTRAN and something called MACTRAN. If any kind soul out there has data on either of these products, I would be very glad to hear about it! Sincerely, A. Remy Malan
normt@ihlpa.UUCP (N. R Tiedemann) (01/14/87)
> > One of the engineers in our group is taking a DSP course this semester and > the instructor said that all coding for the course must be done in FORTRASH > (whoops, I mean FORTRAN! :-). > > I have seen ads for Microsoft FORTRAN and something called MACTRAN. If any > kind soul out there has data on either of these products, I would be very > glad to hear about it! > > Sincerely, > A. Remy Malan Since this is the second or third time I have seen a question about Fortran, I will post instead of mail my response. Yes, there actually are more than 3 people that use or need to use Fortran on the MAC. I myself, dabble a little in programming and being the engineer that I am, I learned Fortran back in my school days (back when structured programming was a theory course.) My wife presently uses Fortran at her job and so we got Microsoft's Fortran last year. This is an excellant product, it not only supports the ANSI Fortran 77 standard statements, but also allows full structured programming (eg. while, for until...) type constructs. I have yet to find a bug anywhere although my use of the toolbox interface is limited to a couple of simple examples. There is what seems to be full support of the mac toolbox and all the windowing functions. There are also about 20-30 example programs and subroutines included that deal with everything from windowing to menuing to printing (with and without spooling) and building full application programs. If you only use standard Fortran I/O a default window (80 columns by 24 lines) pops up and emulates a dumb terminal completely. My wife can write code at home and port the source directly to her machine at work with NO changes. Again we have not used the Mac tools a lot, but given the robustness of the rest of this package, there should be no problem. I got mine through MacConnection, they have the latest version (2.2) which supports HFS and most(I think) MAC versions. (We have a + with a HD20) Boy it's nice to run off a Hard Disk and not flop floppies everywhere. Norm Tiedemann AT&T Bell Labs (Just because we invented C doesn't mean we have like it.)