[Info-vax] pl/m compiler

Scott Dorsey kludge at panix.com
Mon Feb 10 09:36:12 EST 2014


Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote:
>In article <blpedcF74unU1 at mid.individual.net>, bill at server2.cs.scranton.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>> 
>> Which, by the way, is a trivial task as "f2C' has been around for years.
>
>   f2c is very UNIX-centric.  I ported a copy to VMS once and that was
>   a major pain.

It's also flaky garbage that makes code that is hardly human-readable and
often requires a lot of cleanup work.

Thank God g77 (which was really f2c pasted onto gcc) and all that have gone 
away and we have a proper fortran compiler available from gnu now.
--scott
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