There is a lot of G code that really essentially is only portable to linux (or close, e.g. BSDs). There is other code that works nearly everywhere that has a GCC. The "why bother" pessimism is best reserved for more suitable occasions. I'm really glad when APE allows me to compile legacy code and would be equally pleased when on the odd occaison that GCC was needed, available and kind to me.
brucee On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 3:40 AM, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 2008-Feb-29, at 23:11 , ron minnich wrote: > > > > >> But none of this code will "just work" on Plan 9 (especially the > > >> Fortran code), so what's the point? > > > > > > Why do you say that? > > > > The lack of a F95 compiler in /bin? (If you have one in house, that's > > cheating.) > > > > The comment was "especially the Fortran code", but also saying "none > of this code". > > So my question stands: why is it that *none* of this code would work? > > ron >
