> On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, 11:31am -0500, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> > > We have been informed that IBM is no longer supporting
> any Fortran compiler
> > > on any platform.
> >
> > I'm surprised that no one has commented on the interesting
> > part of the original e-mail. Is this true? Have I missed
> > something? Didn't they invent Fortran?
>
> I think the implication is that Purify (originally sold by Pure,
> which was eaten by Rational, which was eaten by IBM) no longer
> supports Fortran.
Yes, you are correct. Purify / PurifyPlus does not support Fortran.
This is the word from the tech support person:
" Fortran is not officially supported and the only documentation
that we go by is the Release Notes that comes with PurifyPlus. "
We've had Purify, etc. since the days when it came from Pure.
That's about 10-12 years ago. Purify dropped official Fortran
support a couple years ago, but we were still able to use it on HP-UX.
(What we really wanted in addition to Purify and Quantify was
a product called "Clarify" which would make clear to the user
what was the intent of another progmmer's code.)
Byron
Byron R. Frank
BAIT Technical Lead
Core Monitoring Products
Westinghouse Electric Co.
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