Re: Inline::Fortran

2003-07-17 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 11:22:23 +0100, Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:50:49AM +0100, David Hodgkinson wrote:
>> 
>> Why isn't there one?
> 
> I suspect that no-one has needed it sufficiently to have a go at writing
> it.

Or more succintly: "because you haven't written it yet".  :-)

-Dom

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Re: Inline::Fortran

2003-07-17 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:50:49AM +0100, David Hodgkinson wrote:
> 
> Why isn't there one?

I suspect that no-one has needed it sufficiently to have a go at writing
it.

Nicholas Clark



Re: Inline::Fortran

2003-07-17 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:50:35 +0100 (BST), Dirk Koopman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:50:49AM +0100, David Hodgkinson wrote:
>>> Why isn't there one?
>>
>> You can write Fortran in any language. (Just see the Numerical Recipes
>> books' code examples if you don't believe me).
> 
> and anyway, as far as I recall, f77 is just a preprocessor which produces C.

No, g77 is a native code compiler.  You're thinking of f2c.

-Dom

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Re: Inline::Fortran

2003-07-17 Thread Dirk Koopman
>
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:50:49AM +0100, David Hodgkinson wrote:
>> Why isn't there one?
>
> You can write Fortran in any language. (Just see the Numerical Recipes
> books' code examples if you don't believe me).

and anyway, as far as I recall, f77 is just a preprocessor which produces C.

Dirk





Re: Inline::Fortran

2003-07-17 Thread Lusercop
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:50:49AM +0100, David Hodgkinson wrote:
> Why isn't there one?

You can write Fortran in any language. (Just see the Numerical Recipes books'
code examples if you don't believe me).

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Inline::Fortran

2003-07-17 Thread David Hodgkinson
Why isn't there one?