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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Fortran growing in absolute number of users
Date: Thu,  1 Dec 2011 16:54:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6b2afd2eb02de37264dd97dca8c63066@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201112012056.pB1KuUA8008990@freefriends.org>

> I thought it was an interesting tidbit that HPC people are going back
> to Fortran from C++.
>
> Ron, care to comment?
>
> Erik, maybe dig out the V7 ratfor and bring it into the 21st century
> for Plan 9?  (:-)

i'll put it on the list ....

actually, i did my time in the dusty decks.  don't think i care for
a reprise.  in that case we had .c4 and .f4, which were c and fortran
decorated with m4 macros.  basically, it allowed us to extend type
checking into fortran.

the system was diaboliclly brilliant.  it was just enough to keep
and old program going, yet not enough to aliviate the suffering
of its maintainers.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-01 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-01 20:56 arnold
2011-12-01 21:54 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2011-12-02  6:39 ` ron minnich
2011-12-02 13:41   ` Bruce Ellis
2011-12-02 13:46     ` Noah Evans
2011-12-02 13:58       ` Bruce Ellis
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-12-01 19:42 Aharon Robbins
2011-12-01 19:48 ` erik quanstrom

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