A full rewrite would be an interesting task How many man years would be expected is hard to say
I guess it would take many years even if you had many highly skilled people in both FORTRAN and the new language and by the way what language would one want to use instead of FORTRAN and why? 2006/3/6, Stefano Lanzavecchia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I would not scoff at FORTRAN as a language for this type of > > thing: this is what the language was designed for. The first > > There's a much more compelling reason to accept FORTRAN as the language > for > BLAS and LAPACK: it's the language in which those two libraries were > originally written and are maintained even today. A full rewrite would be > a > big task and would require extremely careful testing. > -- > WildHeart'2k6 - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > My digipics and blogs: http://spaces.msn.com/members/wildy2k5/ > > [[All I Ever Learned, I Learned From Anime: // > The coolest weapon is still the sword.]] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur Fugl&Fiskur ehf, Þerneyjarsund 23, Skype: gosiminn, gsm: +3546985532 802 Selfoss ,t-póst: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum /|_ .-----------------------------------. ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | ( -. | `-----------------------------------' | ) | (`-. '--.) `. )----' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
