From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-08-10T12:05:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Fortran 77

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> Dave Thomas wrote:
>> 
>> On Aug 9, 2006, at 22:32, Chris Gehlker wrote:
>> 
>>> I just happened upon the the footnote on page 187 of the Pickaxe book 
>>> about how RDoc can document Fortran 77. Does Dave Thomas write a lot of 
>>> Fortran code?
>> 
>> 
>> No, but the NASA folks do, and they submitted a patch :)
>> 
>> 
>> Dave
> NASA still uses FORTRAN *77*? Man, *that's* frightening ... does their patch 
> work with the "new" dialects like 90 and 95?

so do we - TONS.  the thing with g77 compiled code, however, is that the abi
is available to ruby/dl - this is no small advantage over f90 because i allows
one to __only__ write routines in fortran - no top level code.

-a
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