These last few days, I am smiling when I read Profox : I thought I was the only
'Foxil' still working with Foxpro DOS (I have an app working on a Compaq PC that
is 23 years old !) and I am an 'expert' of FORTRAN : when I was in university it
was one the few languages available (with COBOL and a little later C).
I still work with FORTRAN : one of my client is EDF (French national Electricity
Delivery). They where building simulations with 'R' (A new language easy to use
but .... slow). As a test, I translate one of them to FORTRAN : running time
went from 20 minutes to less than 3 seconds (on a multicore machine with FORTRAN
MPI). Since then, I translate a lot and they began to build large simulations
(one hour of FORTRAN !).
I have two drawbacks :
- I can't 'teach' the new scientists that working with integer is a lot
quicker than working with real numbers
- the FORTRAN exe run in a 'dos window' within Windows XP and I have no
access to the energy saver parameters. So, after 15 minutes, the PC goes to
stand by mode because Windows is not able to detect that a 'DOS' exe is running.
So I bought a 'rotating fan', fixed the mouse on it so it moves continously
right and left and ... windows stay 'alive' !!
The Foxil
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