greg@carnivore.tamu.edu (Greg Economides) (02/21/91)
We have tried two Fortran compilers for the Mac and neither of them are very nice/friendly: MacFortran II and MacTran Plus 4.0. Do any of you know of other Fortran compilers and how they compare to these two.? Specifically, some of the problems have been: 1. Error messages are referenced by a number which the user has to look up in the back of the user's manual to find out what went wrong. (MacFortran II) 2. Compiler does not catch the error of calling a subroutine with an incorrect number of arguments. (MacFortran II) 3. Editor is wacky (ruler stays at top of screen) in MacTran. 4. Errors window goes away when the user tries go and fix the errors in the editor (MacTran). 5. Debugging tools are either poor or undocumented. (both) These are preliminary observations, though. These compilers have not been thouroghly tried-out by any means. However, first impressions are important and have been pretty bad with these two. Any suggestions? Peace, -- Greg Economides "This sentence is false" Technical Lab Coordinator Texas A&M University -- Biosystems Modelling Group Internet: greg@carnivore.tamu.edu