From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: C H Forsyth Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 10:38:30 +0000 To: 9fans@9fans.net In-Reply-To: <78c41896424e345485cd1d783502fd9e@swcp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Modern development language for Plan 9, WAS: Re: RESOLVED: recoving important header file rudely Topicbox-Message-UUID: aa225856-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Ah. Thanks for the info. I asked because some of the physicists and > atmospheric scientists I work with are likely to insist on having > FORTRAN. I still have not figured how I will deal with that if at all. it's not just the FORTRAN but supporting libraries, sometimes large ones, including ones in C++, are often required as well. i'd concluded that cross-compilation was currently the only effective route. i hadn't investigated whether something like linuxemu could be used (or extended easily enough) to allow cross-compilation within the plan 9 environment. i have found a few exceptions written in plain, reasonably portable C, good for my purposes, but not characteristic of scientific applications in general.