Lahey Support
08-15-2003, 01:33 AM
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font face="arial" size=2>Hi,</font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=2>I've been thinking about what could a group of
Fortran programmers do to improve Fortran's popularity.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=2>An idea whose time may have come: Write
Knuth algorithms in ELF90 and make the code available on the
web.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=2>I suggest ELF90 because it would lead to a
discipline that would help the code be more uniform across
programmers. Maybe a place to start is a style guide?</font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=2>Lahey will have an ELF90 syntax checker
available on our website Sept 14. We're all programmers, so
remember this is a prediction.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=2>Any thoughts?</font><br>
<font face="arial" size=2>Tom</font></blockquote>
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Since most of Fortran's users are scientists or engineers, it seems to me
that the best way to keep Fortran alive is to provide a product to the
Engineering, Physics and other sciences a set of teaching <br>
tools that would be hard to resist. I don't really know what
those tools are, but a decent set of Math functions would help. A
set of programs that are useful in teaching standard concepts and
techniques might be useful. What ever it is, it has to
provide added value of what they can get from C. Compile a
variety of freeware routines and (maybe even games) written in
Fortran. I have a ancient set of character routines
that have a text centering routine and simple routines to write out comma
delimited data. I'm sure most of us have more useful
routines in their utilities libraries. <br>
<br>
As for myself, I think that it would be wonderful for someone to set up a
knowledge base for common Fortran errors and solutions. I
know that a lot of good information passes through this site, but there's
no one to catalog it and make it available to everyone. <br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Bob Cohen<br>
(703) 534-7618<br>
[address removed]
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font face="arial" size=2>Hi,</font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=2>I've been thinking about what could a group of
Fortran programmers do to improve Fortran's popularity.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=2>An idea whose time may have come: Write
Knuth algorithms in ELF90 and make the code available on the
web.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=2>I suggest ELF90 because it would lead to a
discipline that would help the code be more uniform across
programmers. Maybe a place to start is a style guide?</font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=2>Lahey will have an ELF90 syntax checker
available on our website Sept 14. We're all programmers, so
remember this is a prediction.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=2>Any thoughts?</font><br>
<font face="arial" size=2>Tom</font></blockquote>
<x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep>
Since most of Fortran's users are scientists or engineers, it seems to me
that the best way to keep Fortran alive is to provide a product to the
Engineering, Physics and other sciences a set of teaching <br>
tools that would be hard to resist. I don't really know what
those tools are, but a decent set of Math functions would help. A
set of programs that are useful in teaching standard concepts and
techniques might be useful. What ever it is, it has to
provide added value of what they can get from C. Compile a
variety of freeware routines and (maybe even games) written in
Fortran. I have a ancient set of character routines
that have a text centering routine and simple routines to write out comma
delimited data. I'm sure most of us have more useful
routines in their utilities libraries. <br>
<br>
As for myself, I think that it would be wonderful for someone to set up a
knowledge base for common Fortran errors and solutions. I
know that a lot of good information passes through this site, but there's
no one to catalog it and make it available to everyone. <br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Bob Cohen<br>
(703) 534-7618<br>
[address removed]
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