Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi,comp.lang.fortran
From: carlson@erdelyi.math.purdue.edu (Neil Carlson)
Subject: Re: Dynamic memory allocation in Fortran
Organization: Purdue University
Date: 23 Sep 1996 02:26:39 GMT
Message-ID: <524sgv$avh@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>

Erik Demaine wrote:
|> Actually, not really.  There are no portable free F90 compilers.  F90
|> compilers aren't "popular" yet; for example, they aren't automatically shipped
|> with new computers.  F90 is a great language, but it tends to be expensive.

Have you bought a computer lately?  Bundling compilers together with the OS is a
practice that seems to have long vanished, at least for IBM and HP.  If you want
their compiler (C or Fortran) you've got to pay (a lot) extra.
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