alvin@spot.Colorado.EDU (ALVIN KENNETH F) (10/13/90)
Is there a public domain version of fortran (ala unix f77) available for the NeXT system? If not, is there a reasonably-priced commercial alternative (affordable to a student)? Thanks. Ken Alvin alvin@titan.colorado.edu alvin@spot.colorado.edu
phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu (10/13/90)
In article <28043@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, alvin@spot.Colorado.EDU (ALVIN KENNETH F) writes... >Is there a public domain version of fortran (ala unix f77) available >for the NeXT system? If not, is there a reasonably-priced commercial >alternative (affordable to a student)? Thanks. > I understand that f2c is a very reasonable PD fortran->c converter, and can handle quite complicated and long subroutines, although it does occasionally choke and although it requires strict column adherence. Absoft produces a Fortran compiler, but I don't think you would consider it reasonably priced for a student (i.e. $500-$1,000). There may be other PD compilers, say for Sun, that you may convert easily (even binary! atom can convert many Sun programs directly to the NeXT). I also know that one person is currently writing a Fortran frontend for the gnu compiler system that will be a full publicly available Fortran. However, this may take some time, since it'll be a free program and they presumably have to work for a living. /ivo welch ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu