Jan van Oosterwijk wrote:
> I know one organisation where people are still using
> Fortran 77, pretending that their existing programs are
> 77, though I tried hard to convince them of the advantages
> of Fortran 90/95.
>
I know more than one...
All Fortran programers still use f77 here (except myself). They have
good and bad reasons:
- good f90 compilers not available on all platforms
- performances degradations from f77 to f90
- people who really need modern features switched to C years ago
- A lot a hidden dynamic memory allocation in f90 (some industrial
packages make their own memory mangement and don't like this)
In my opinion, the only attractive reason to switch to f90 (for both
f77 and C programers) will be the parallel programming features.
regards
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