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[rogerh]

Thanks but I haven't found easy and fortran to coincide much.
Plato catches my syntax errors and tells me what line but why is another matter. Sample code is REALLY needed for novices like me.

Run errors, forget it. The messages tell me nothing.

Clearwin+ will probably do the job from what little I've seen but may be overkill.

Roger

[DanRRight]

[rogerh]

[rogerh]

[DanRRight]

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[rogerh]

DanRRight;

I agree but doubt it will happen here.

Personally I'd like to see programming in English. There are a couple of attempts such as Pegasus and Wolfram/Alpha but neither are near completion.

Roger

[rogerh]

Hi John;

Along those lines I once wrote a fortran to basic translator which worked pretty well.

I also tried to write the programming in english program which died after the first command. WAY too many possibilities to manage.

Roger

[rogerh]

John;

No Perl's a language of sorts but where do tadpoles and frogs get mentioned?

Roger

[rogerh]

[rogerh]

Woops!

Sleep1@ won't work either.

The client wants an interruptable sleep. The idea is to shut down the program yet be able to press a function key to reactivate the keyboard.

Any way to do this?

Roger

[DanRRight]

Decades from now Fortran will write formulas as they look in math books but today when we still need to code them, they look most natural only in Fortran. That what non-programmers (read 99.9% of people who need sometimes to code) appreciate. And this is why Fortran which was the first high level programming language will die as the last programming language. it's simplicity is a key. If you do not like TYPEs - do not use them, all that new additions to Fortran Standard are generally for those who must use programming daily.

Long ago I had comparison of the code written in Clearwin+ vs C++ which is this thread on this forum

http://forums.silverfrost.com/viewtopic.php?t=1429&highlight=trading+quotetracker

The difference was 10x in source size and uncountable in simplicity. Same with all other languages, see references there including VB and VB for Net. The Clrarwin+ is of course not a Fortran, but keeps the same mentality of fortraneers. You can try to compare these things yourself, i just checked, 7 years later they are still there in that link

[rogerh]

Here's my shot at an interruptable wait routine.

It won't compile. Says DO is not labeled but END DO is.

I don't get it.

Roger

program keys

integer:: kv

do chk

call sleep1@(2)
call get_key (kv)
select case (kv)
case (0) ! NO KEY
exit select
case (27) ! ESC
exit check
case (368) ! F1
print *, kv
case default
end select

end do chk


end

[jalih]

[jalih]

Could you tell us more, what are you trying to achieve? Do you really need to sleep at all?

Why Perl needs to call Fortran routine? What Fortran routine needs to do?

If Fortran program needs to process some data file when its changed or created, then you could ask the file system to selectively notify you about changes.

[rogerh]

Thanks!

This works. The problem was that I could find no explanation for naming the DO in the help file.


print *,"Start sleep"
chk: do

call sleep1@(2)
call get_key@ (kv)
select case (kv)
case (27) ! ESC
exit chk
case (368) ! F1
print *, kv
case default
end select

end do chk
print *,"End sleep"

Now I'll add things to do when the key is pressed.

Roger