From bruny@lahey.com Mon Aug 26 11:11:04 1996 Path: solitaire.cv.nrao.edu!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!portal.gmu.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!pecos.msfc.nasa.gov!not-for-mail From: Bob Runyan Newsgroups: sci.astro.research Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: Free Fortran 90 Subset - Elf90 compiler Date: 22 Aug 1996 16:09:25 GMT Organization: Lahey Computer Systems, Inc. Lines: 61 Sender: astres@pecos.msfc.nasa.gov Approved: astres@pecos.msfc.nasa.gov Distribution: world Message-ID: <4vi0od$c3b@pecos.msfc.nasa.gov> Reply-To: bruny@lahey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: pecos.msfc.nasa.gov Keywords: techniques ANNOUNCEMENT: FREE FORTRAN 90 SUBSET Elf90: The unCOMMON Fortran Lahey Computer System is offering its Elf90 language system, minus debugger, editor, manual, and technical support, for FREE. Just download from our web site: http://www.lahey.com Basic Language and User documentation are provided on the web site, as well as Elf90 example code and a document explaining Elf90's design and rationale. Elf90 is a clean subset of the Fortran 90 language intended for people learning Fortran 90 and for people writing new code. Elf90 eliminates older Fortran features for which there are Fortran 90 alternatives and encourages a disciplined, maintainable, readable style. Elf90 is not recommended for porting older code. Elf90 has all of the powerful new features of Fortran, including: o modules, o array expressions, o interface blocks, o derived types, o pointers, o array intrinsics, o internal procedures, o allocatable arrays, o select case, o free source form, and o long variable names Can your COMMONs, expunge your EQUIVALENCEs, make more of your MODULEs. Download a copy of Elf90 today. System Requirements: o 486DX, Pentium, or Pentium Pro o DOS 3.3 or higher, Windows 95, or Windows NT o 8MB RAM, 16MB recommended, 32MB recommended with Windows 95 or Windows NT o 12MB hard disk space -- ********************************************************** * Bob Runyan "What lies behind us and * * Lahey Computer Systems what lies before us are * * (702) 831-2500 tiny matters compared to * * mailto:bruny@lahey.com what lies within us." * * http://www.lahey.com - Ralph Waldo Emerson * ********************************************************** -- ********************************************************** * Bob Runyan "What lies behind us and * * Lahey Computer Systems what lies before us are * * (702) 831-2500 tiny matters compared to * * mailto:bruny@lahey.com what lies within us." * * http://www.lahey.com - Ralph Waldo Emerson * **********************************************************