Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote in message
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A couple of sentences of follow-up would have been sufficient.
The experience that I have had over the years with Newsgroup posting
is that it is generally better to try to be
Joel Goldstick joel.goldst...@gmail.com wrote in message
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That being said, I'm guessing that this thing is used in some academic
setting. If that's true, why not get a student (who will be much more
versed in modern programming
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 12:15 PM, E.D.G. edgrs...@ix.netcom.com wrote:
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A couple of sentences of follow-up would have been sufficient.
The experience that I have had over the
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Etgtab FORTRAN project
Perl speed comparison
This Etgtab FORTRAN computer program
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Etgtab FORTRAN project
Perl speed comparison
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There is a slight air in unreality to all this, but just in case this is
The world of science where programmers work with people who have
degrees in the
On 17/11/13 14:37, E.D.G. wrote:
All of my own important programs are written using Perl. I am starting
to run into calculation speed limitations with one of the programs.
Your Perl code is, er, sub-optimal. There is absolutely no point in
doing benchmarks until you've improved the code.
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Henry Law n...@lawshouse.org wrote:
On 17/11/13 14:37, E.D.G. wrote:
All of my own important programs are written using Perl. I am starting
to run into calculation speed limitations with one of the programs.
Your Perl code is,
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 2:20 AM, Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote:
But, for a non-expert, it may be that while L2 is capable of computing a
solution in less time than L1, it takes a lot of expert knowledge to get
the L2 program to that state. For the limited amount of programming
expertise and
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For one thing, the input and output routines need to be changed.
And we want it to be able to generate charts or graphs. The existing
program will generate only text data.
You can
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All of the necessary information regarding this effort has now been
obtained. So, further discussions of this particular project will probably
take place in only the Fortran Newsgroup.
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Scientists view computer programs as tools, no different from any other
I agree totally. There are many scientists who learn how to write
programs to help with their scientific work. I doubt
On 11/17/2013 8:25 AM, E.D.G. wrote:
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Scientists view computer programs as tools, no different from any other
I agree totally. There are many scientists who learn how to
write programs to help
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Tim Prince tpri...@computer.org wrote:
Perhaps you would start with an automatic indentation tool before
translating. You may have a rule against using current syntax and
indentation for Fortran, but others don't.
Does anybody still use ratfor?
mecej4 mecej4_nos...@operamail.com wrote:
On 11/14/2013 8:18 AM, E.D.G. wrote:
Posted by E.D.G. on November 14, 2013
In view of the fact that I mentioned the following project in
both Perl and Python Newsgroup notes and did not get any hostile
responses [...]
Don't flatter yourself.
Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote:
In article bes9a5ffm6...@mid.individual.net,
Tim Prince tpri...@computer.org wrote:
Perhaps you would start with an automatic indentation tool before
translating. You may have a rule against using current syntax and
indentation for Fortran, but others
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Richard Maine nospam@see.signature wrote:
Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote:
In article bes9a5ffm6...@mid.individual.net,
Tim Prince tpri...@computer.org wrote:
Perhaps you would start with an automatic indentation tool before
translating. You may have a
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Some additional research indicates that there is an international
scientific organization that should be interested in this particular program
translation effort. And tomorrow I plan
Roy Smith r...@panix.com writes:
Henry Law n...@lawshouse.org wrote:
On 17/11/13 14:37, E.D.G. wrote:
All of my own important programs are written using Perl. I am starting
to run into calculation speed limitations with one of the programs.
Your Perl code is, er, sub-optimal. There is
On 11/17/2013 5:25 AM, E.D.G. wrote:
[snip several paragraphs that have nothing to do with Python]
A couple of sentences of follow-up would have been sufficient.
'We decided to go with Fortran and True-Basic and not Python.
PERL SPEED COMPARISON
Some of the early discussions leading
BB == Ben Bacarisse ben.use...@bsb.me.uk writes:
BB There is a slight air in unreality to all this,
This is a far more polite way of putting it than I would. It's an
earthquake predictor based on pseudoscience and technobabble.
BB Finally, why are you timing Perl arithmetic? A
I downloaded the packed file mentioned, extracted the files and had a look
at the Fortran sources given:
ETGTAB.FOR and ETGTAB.F
The ETGTAB.FOR file had double spacing, which Iremoved automatically, then
compared the two sources automatically (passing and copying equals and
offering choice
On Nov 16, 2013, at 4:31 AM, Terence tbwri...@bigpond.net.au wrote:
I downloaded the packed file mentioned, extracted the files and had a look
at the Fortran sources given:
ETGTAB.FOR and ETGTAB.F
The ETGTAB.FOR file had double spacing, which Iremoved automatically, then
compared the two
On 14/11/2013 17:36, Gordon Sande wrote:
Indeed! Under NAGWare Fortran it runs to completion with C=all but pulls an
undefined reference when C=undefined is added.
Lots of obsolete features and other warnings but no compiler error
messages.
The obvious lessons are that 1. Fortran has very
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The responses regarding that Etgtab program were encouraging. I was
not sure if anyone would even recognize the code as the program was written
quite a while ago.
The main
Posted by E.D.G. on November 14, 2013
In view of the fact that I mentioned the following project in both
Perl and Python Newsgroup notes and did not get any hostile responses I am
going to take a chance and mention it again in all three of these
Newsgroups. People posting responses
On 11/14/2013 8:18 AM, E.D.G. wrote:
Posted by E.D.G. on November 14, 2013
In view of the fact that I mentioned the following project in
both Perl and Python Newsgroup notes and did not get any hostile
responses I am going to take a chance and mention it again in all three
of these
On 2013-11-14 17:07:45 +, mecej4 said:
On 11/14/2013 8:18 AM, E.D.G. wrote:
Posted by E.D.G. on November 14, 2013
In view of the fact that I mentioned the following project in
both Perl and Python Newsgroup notes and did not get any hostile
responses I am going to take a chance and
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