From walt@swcp.com Wed Feb 8 09:25:11 1995 Received: from kitsune.swcp.com by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA24306 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Thu, 9 Feb 1995 00:22:57 +0100 Received: (from walt@localhost) by kitsune.swcp.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id QAA18616 for SC22WG5@dkuug.dk; Wed, 8 Feb 1995 16:25:11 -0700 Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1995 16:25:11 -0700 From: Walt Brainerd Message-Id: <199502082325.QAA18616@kitsune.swcp.com> To: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk Subject: F90 use X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 I have given several extensive classes in Fortran 90 over the past year or so; most indicated they were there because they were starting to "convert" large projects to Fortran 90. As an example, I will give two classes at NASA Langley (in the state of Virginia) in a couple of weeks. They are beginning another major project involving Earth Orbiting Satellites and they will do the new software development in F90. When they announced the class, 60 people wanted to attend, so they had to do it in two classes. At the other end of the size spectrum, I did a class last year at a small engineering firm in Bellevue (a very few miles from Linda); they intended to start doing all of their numerical work in Fortran, and they work mostly in the DOS environment. > Are people really using Fortran 90, or are we just selling Fortran 90 > compilers? Does anyone have real experience with real people using > Fortran 90 to build a real product? (Where product means something > that other people use, but not necessarily sold). > > ljo But it certainly is the case that all this is not happening as fast as some of us (e.g., those with F90 compilers for sale) might have hoped. Walt Brainerd walt@fortran.com Unicomp, Inc. +1-505-275-0800 856-1501 (fax) 1874 San Bernardino Ave NE +1-500-Fortran (367-8726) Albuquerque, NM 87122 USA http://www.fortran.com/fortran