On Mon, 1 Mar 1999 15:11:47 +0000 (GMT) John Blair-Fish <[log in to unmask]>
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> One of my Business Studies colleagues was complaining that
> Fortran did not have any facilities to do I/O in spreadsheet
> format. Do any compilers come near to offering such facilities.
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> I pointed out it would make more sense to visualise lots
> of numbers - either using a Graphics subroutine library or
> by turning the Fortran program into a module to fit in a
> Visualistion network.
It is also possible to incorporate fortran routines as addons to most of the
mainline spread sheets. Nag for example provide a set of stats routines in
the form of addon dlls for MS-excel. This way you can use the spread sheet
for the things it is good at but the fortran routines for what it is good at!
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