On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Ed Hill wrote:
But seriously, I've read of efforts to standardize (within the official
ISO documents) the linking conventions so that its easier to call C
routines from Fortran and vice versa. Unfortunately, these proposals
were rejected during the last couple of Fortran standards updates. For
shame...
Seriously, I agree. I also particularly liked your statement that
really applications should "aspire to become libraries". Very well put.
Ed
ps - Semi-relevant link for the day:
http://www.fortranstatement.com/cgi-bin/petition.pl
rgb
(OK, now I'm REALLY done with the thread...;-)
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