Re: OT: what scripting language to learn?
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 07:33:11PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>
> > If its a pure
> >> engineering problem, I'll use Fortran77.
>
> May I suggest you shift to Fortran 90 from Fortran 77? Though Fortran 77
> codes are compatible with Fortran 90, I find that F90 has much better tools
> organize the code than F77.
>
> There is even a free Fortran 90 compiler called gfortran (availble in
> Debian) which can compile the F90 codes.
Sure, I can do Fortran90, but F77 is sort of a
lowest-common-denomonator. If other engineers will have to look at it,
any engineer should be able to do F77.
If the problem is big and complex, then I switch to Ada.
Doug.
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