Peter Shenkin wrote:
> I've never seen a large Fortran program that doesn't require
> some services that the language doesn't provide but that
> are provided by OS calls instead. Bindings are usually provided
> in C. Thus, must Fortran programs must call C, and the way
> this is done of course differs from platform to platform.
Those of us who used a real operating system (VMS), instead of an
overgrown games platform like Unix, know that this is a limitation of
Unix, not something intrinsic in operating system interfaces.
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