[Lazarus] Converting Fortran to FPC?

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

waldo kitty wrote:

> FWIW: there is probably a FORTRAN compiler for *nix... whether or not it 
> can take your existing FORTRAN code and compile it to a library for *nix 
> is another question... and, as noted above, there may not be any real 
> need to keep those routines in FORTRAN... it may be pretty easy to 
> convert them to PASCAL (or any other of today's languages)... it really 
> depends on the code and, in the case of math functions, the precision 
> needed...

Yes, I believe there's a GNU FORTRAN but other than eyeballing it to see 
what sort of parallelisation facilities it provides I've not touched 
FORTRAN for around 30 years.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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