Pro FORTRAN 5.0. (Absoft) (Software Review)(Evaluation)(Brief Article)

From: Macworld | Date: July 1, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

Java may be the hot computer language of the nineties, but you wouldn't know it to look at business and government sites; in the real world, older languages like COBOL and FORTRAN are still doing much of the day-to-day work at banks, government labs, and NASA. In big-project scientific and numeric calculation, for example, the ancient FORTRAN language in one of its newer forms--FORTRAN 77 or

FORTRAN 90--is still grinding away on optimized legacy code.

Source code originally written for Cray and Fujitsu supercomputers can now run without serious modification on a Mac using ...

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