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  Topic: Fortran 2003/2008
weaverwb

Replies: 146
Views: 156667

PostForum: General   Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:39 pm   Subject: Fortran > 95
As someone who has code that takes a week to run on a very fast Xeon, do concurrent and coarrays look very attractive. I know very little about compilers but both of these seem like they would be dif ...
  Topic: Strange Loop Feature
weaverwb

Replies: 6
Views: 8744

PostForum: General   Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:48 am   Subject:
Hi all,

I've been using Fortran since Fortran II so I've seen a lot of compilers come and go. Most have claimed that the index is not defined after leaving the loop but all tested for 'exceed'; i. ...
  Topic: Looping & numerical problems - please advise
weaverwb

Replies: 5
Views: 7030

PostForum: Support   Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 7:29 am   Subject:
a couple questions come to mind: are any of the variables you list being declared as parameters or in a data statement anywhere? Are these variables used in the calculations? Is this section of code ...
  Topic: Structured programming newbie! could someone please advise?
weaverwb

Replies: 24
Views: 25537

PostForum: Support   Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 6:27 pm   Subject:
Sorry about the length of things which may have obfuscated my basic point; I'll try to summarize:

Programming is a craft. the best tools are those that permit the craftsman to express himself in w ...
  Topic: Structured programming newbie! could someone please advise?
weaverwb

Replies: 24
Views: 25537

PostForum: Support   Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 9:27 pm   Subject:

Hehe, I'm glad that didn't get lost in the mix. Was it actually your intention to allude to Fermat's famous comment?

well, no; my thought was to Mark Antony coyly saying that he could not read J ...
  Topic: Structured programming newbie! could someone please advise?
weaverwb

Replies: 24
Views: 25537

PostForum: Support   Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 9:58 am   Subject: Re:
Would that be a computer program to prove Fermat's Last Theorem, then?

Ha! I deserved that!('Laughing')

No, I just have some code that would take about a year to run completely and discussions o ...
  Topic: Structured programming newbie! could someone please advise?
weaverwb

Replies: 24
Views: 25537

PostForum: Support   Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 8:32 am   Subject:
Hi all,

Programming languages: FORTRAN, various kinds of Basic (best for quick and dirty programs), Aion 7 (an expert system language); occasional C, C++ (I don't like assembly languages, however t ...
  Topic: Structured programming newbie! could someone please advise?
weaverwb

Replies: 24
Views: 25537

PostForum: Support   Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:39 pm   Subject:
I'm sure that Paul's guess is almost right. I know I have not taught it and I know of others who do not as well but, again, I'm sure that we're in a small minority. It also seems true that many begi ...
  Topic: Structured programming newbie! could someone please advise?
weaverwb

Replies: 24
Views: 25537

PostForum: Support   Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:20 am   Subject:
Hi,

You seemed worried a lot about memory and speed. Those are the kind of questions more common in the 1960s or associated with big crunching programs (like a couple I have that take days to run) ...
  Topic: Structured programming newbie! could someone please advise?
weaverwb

Replies: 24
Views: 25537

PostForum: Support   Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 7:49 am   Subject:
Hi,

A couple notes about subroutines may help sharpen your view of them.

In general, you should only make global those variables that need to be. One major advantage of subroutines is that all ...
  Topic: Subroutine efficiency
weaverwb

Replies: 10
Views: 10466

PostForum: Support   Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 12:07 am   Subject:
Hi,

We're wandering a bit but this last post has touched on a sore point which I can't resist commenting on.

For us real geezers -- I started with Fortran II -- there were always IF statements a ...
  Topic: Subroutine efficiency
weaverwb

Replies: 10
Views: 10466

PostForum: Support   Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:32 am   Subject:
Wow! That has to be the worst programming advice I've ever heard!

One rule of thumb is that any code segment (e.g., a subroutine) should be about one page long. As any complicated code extends ov ...
  Topic: Learning Fortran 95 - recommendations
weaverwb

Replies: 6
Views: 17885

PostForum: General   Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 9:03 am   Subject:
Hi,

Like most topics these days, one book doesn't seem to make it. I bought 3 or 4, finding each one provided some part that others did not. In particular, most leave out some parts or an ...
  Topic: New Version FTN95 v5.01
weaverwb

Replies: 8
Views: 9534

PostForum: Support   Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:07 pm   Subject: me too.
c/net claims it is 5.0 and it was uploaded on 7 December. The download is exactly the same byte size as 5.0. Seems like they have not posted it yet. Is it elsewhere?
  Topic: SIMPLEPLOT
weaverwb

Replies: 3
Views: 8545

PostForum: General   Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 6:36 am   Subject: Buss
Hi,

I talked to him about a year ago, I'm pretty sure that he gave it up.

sorry.
 
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