Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi,comp.lang.fortran
From: eddemain@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Erik Demaine)
Subject: Re: Dynamic memory allocation in Fortran
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 01:55:10 GMT
Message-ID: <Dy7rzz.6p4@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>

Neil Carlson (carlson@erdelyi.math.purdue.edu) wrote:
: 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.

No, I admit I haven't.  Nevertheless, "scientific organizations" will
generally buy a C and Fortran compiler with the computer (at least that's
my experience).  It's not yet common (at least in North America) to buy
a F90 compiler.

I heard that HP is now supporting the FSF and using GNU C as its C compiler.
Can someone shed some light on this rumor?

Erik
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