From: Tim.Hunter@...
Date: 2002-08-27T02:20:06+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] What New Language After Ruby?

Yes, calling FORTRAN from C is do-able and worth the trouble if 1)
what you're doing is something that FORTRAN does well, such as
numerical analysis, or 2) you need to call routines that are only
available in FORTRAN.

As for _how_ to do it, the best thing I can say is "consult your C
and/or FORTRAN compiler documentation." Inter-programming-language
communication is extremely vendor-dependent. There are issues
regarding memory management, data types, exception handling, etc.

On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 11:45:27 GMT, Nikodemus Siivola
<tsiivola@cc.hut.fi> wrote:

>
>On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 Tim.Hunter@sas.com wrote:
>
>> FORTRAN libraries. We spent a lot of time figuring out how to allow C
>> calls into FORTRAN routines, for the same reason people today make
>> Ruby call C routines: speed.
>
>So that is really doable and worth the trouble? Can you give any good
>pointers on how to do it? (No, I don't even know FORTRAN, but I this sounds
>like a fun experiment.)
>
> -- Nikodemus
>
>