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Re: fortran 90 for debian



Kevin Mark <kmark+debian-user@pipeline.com> said on Thu, 18 Dec 2003 04:42:49 -0500:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 01:00:47AM -0700, Lucas Albers wrote:
> > I looked unsuccesfully for a fortran 90 package, using apt-cache.
> > Does debian have a fortran 90 package?
> > I am trying to get nother department to use debian in their new
> > computational farm.
> > They require a fortan compiler.
> > I realize debian has a fortran 77 compiler.
> >=20
> > --Luke
> >=20
> Hi Luke,
> I know little about the fun of fortaran but a google shows 2 things:
> a) you can translate f90 to f77
> b) intel has an RPM of their (not for commercial use -- personal or
> academic) f90

I'm doing the latter. There are various fortran 90 projects around -
such as g95 and something else. It looks like g95 wont be integrated
with gcc until 2005 or so.


The ifc compiler is quite nice. It's diagnostics and error and warning
messages are *real* nice. Only problem is they don't interface with
emacs :(

It can be told to do all sorts of runtime checks on array bounds and
argument mismatches etc, and has found many a bug in my programs. The
only thing it doesn't do is make sure common blocks are matches
properly. I kept getting address errors until I found the culprit.

-- 
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Behind every great computer sits a skinny little geek.



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