schoenin@s.cs.uiuc.edu (09/20/89)
Our research group is interested in locating low-cost compilers for PASCAL and FORTRAN. Encore's price, even with an educational discount, is a steep $3,750 each. At these prices that makes a source license out of the question for us. Are there any 3rd party compilers available ? Are they any good ? Alternatively, how good are the Encore compilers ? Are they so good it might justify the cost ? brad schoening Computer Systems Group Univ. of Illinois - UC schoenin@cs.uiuc.edu
dcourte@thor.wright.edu (Dale Emery Courte,040P Lib. Annex,873-4030,) (09/22/89)
From article <213200001@s.cs.uiuc.edu>, by schoenin@s.cs.uiuc.edu: > > Our research group is interested in locating low-cost compilers for > PASCAL and FORTRAN. Encore's price, even with an educational discount, > is a steep $3,750 each. At these prices that makes a source license > out of the question for us. Are there any 3rd party compilers available ? > Are they any good ? What gives here? I have a quote from Encore in front of me, and the price for Fortran is an unbelievable $12,500! I was told not to expect an educational discount of more than 25% on this. Does anyone know what the _real_ price of Fortran is? At the price I was quoted, it is simply out of the question. > > Alternatively, how good are the Encore compilers ? Are they so good > it might justify the cost ? I have experience here with Encore's parallel implementation of VADS Ada, and my Ada users tell me it far outperforms the VADS implementations on SUN systems here on campus. I have heard from at least one user elsewhere that the Fortran compiler is also quite a performer. It is probably worth the price you were quoted, but not the one I was quoted. ----------------------------- ------------------------------------- Dale Courte CSNET: dcourte@eve.wright.edu University Computing Services BITNET: dcourte@wsu Wright State University UUCP: ..!uunet!ncrlink!wright!dcourte Dayton, Ohio 45435 phone: (513) 873-4030 ----------------------------- ------------------------------------- ----------------------------- ------------------------------------- Dale Courte CSNET: dcourte@eve.wright.edu University Computing Services BITNET: dcourte@wsu Wright State University UUCP: ..!uunet!ncrlink!wright!dcourte
prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) (09/24/89)
In article <667@thor.wright.EDU> dcourte@thor.wright.edu writes: >What gives here? I have a quote from Encore in front of me, and the >price for Fortran is an unbelievable $12,500! I was told not to expect an >educational discount of more than 25% on this. Does anyone know what the >_real_ price of Fortran is? At the price I was quoted, it is simply out >of the question. The $12,500 price is for the *parallel* Fortran compiler. The sequential one is less than half of that. And there's a sequential-to-parallel upgrade available, so you can start with the seq. compiler and later change your mind (the parallel compiler of course includes the sequential one). I do really like the parallel compiler. I can feed it just about any standard Fortran-77 program and have it parallelize the program automagically for me. Speeds development tremendeously. Even better, I can have it generate new, parallelized source for me that is the old source (comments and structure retained) with parallell statements inserted now and then. -- Robert Claeson E-mail: rclaeson@erbe.se ERBE DATA AB