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- From: alan@dmsmelb.mel.dms.CSIRO.AU (Alan Miller)
- Subject: Re: faq: proposed response: various vendors f90 status
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- References: <KHB.92Dec16183054@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 06:55:36 GMT
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- In article <KHB.92Dec16183054@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM> khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman fpgoup) writes:
- >
- >I would appreciate those with relevent information to email me
- >directly. I'll fold the responses into the Jan edition of the faq. It
- >is best if the information is authortative, however, rumors will be
- >marked as such.
- >
- >Q29) What are the various compiler vendors doing about Fortran 90?
- >
- >This is by no means a definitive listing <khb>
- >
- >IBM's xlf 2.3 compiler for the RS6000 has partial Fortran 90 included.
- >Some features are implemented in the base compiler others are
- >implemented via preprocessor support (user has choice of KAP or VAST).
- >
- >DEC has publically claimed '93 as a target for a Fortran 90 + HPF
- >product.
- >
- >SunPro has publically announced a technology agreement with NAG; the
- >result to be an integration of the NAG front end with the SunPro
- >optimizer, backend, and programming environment.
- >
- >CRI has not, to this author's knowledge (khb), provided dates for
- >their Fortran product; however they have discussed the product with a
- >wide range of users.
- >
- >HP has publically announced a phased implementation approach; the
- >order of feature implementation to be customer driven.
- >
- >NAG has a full implementation, which functions via a translation step
- >to C. It is available on a variety of platforms. See "Q2 above".
- >
- >Lahey has a Fortran 90 front end project, a final compiler has not
- >been announced.
- >
- >PSR's VAST-90 is available (see Q2 above).
- >
- >Kuck and Associates is said to have a translator (evidence, it is
- >included as part of xlf 2.3) to f77.
- >
- >Parasoft (see Q2 above).
- >--
- >----------------------------------------------------------------
- >Keith H. Bierman keith.bierman@Sun.COM| khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM
- >SunPro 2550 Garcia MTV 12-40 | (415 336 2648) fax 964 0946
- >Mountain View, CA 94043 <speaking for myself, not Sun*> Copyright 1992
- >
-
-
- In your `rumour' category - unless you have better information than I have -
- you could add that the EPC (Edinburgh Portable Compilers) f90 is almost
- ready for beta testing. It could be the first true compiler for f90 -
- as opposed to the various packages which translate from f90 to either C or
- Fortran 77. Does anyone have more detailed information about the EPC f90
- compiler? I get their newsletter, but the last one was very quiet about
- their f90 compiler.
-
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