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Jean-Yves Tillier wrote > I would like to ask the members of this mailists if they have some > concrete examples of companies, research institutes/group, > universities...using fortran90, and what for. > > Here at UH, fortran90 is used by PhD students essentially. Doing small > helpful programs or learning/teaching the language but nothing > important. I do not know current f90 applications (????) > > For my culture I am curious to know some "real" examples. I work at IABG, Germany. My company (1400 people) offers technical services particularly in the aerospacial sector. I use Fortran 90 for doing system simulation. The behavior of what I call a system (e.g. an airplane) is governed by: (a) ordinary differential equations, (b) periodical and sporadical events. Previously, I used to perform my simulation with a (good) program written by someone else in Fortran 77. Then a new project came, and I decided to use this opportunity for writing a new, more flexible program in Fortran 90. Well, I am very happy of having taken this (courageous) decision. Fortran 90 is just much better than Fortran 77, and the new software take advantage from this very much. By the way, I think Ada is even better than Fortran 90. Pros: (a) a good and modern programming style is encouraged, (b) some very advanced features are offered. Con: Unfortunately Ada is not very popular. I write code which is ELF compatible. (ELF is a subset of Fortran 90 not containing old-fashined construction.) Hope it helps. Cheers, Vittorio ------------------------------------------------- Dr. Vittorio G. Caffa Tel.: (089) 6088-2054 IABG, Abt. AF 11 Fax: (089) 6088-3990 Einsteinstr. 20 E-Mail: [log in to unmask] D-85521 Ottobrunn %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%