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Re: Errors on your web page
- From: "Paul Richard Thomas" <paul dot richard dot thomas at gmail dot com>
- To: "Mikael Morin" <mikael dot morin at tele2 dot fr>
- Cc: "Steve Kargl" <sgk at troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu>, fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:10:52 +0100
- Subject: Re: Errors on your web page
- References: <20081125065426.GA73502@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <492D4725.6070303@tele2.fr>
Mikael and Steve,
> Do you really think they will change their webpage to one that
> explicitly states that their compiler has a competitor with comparable
> features, which is at least as fast, supports more platforms and is
> available for free?
> I would be very surprised if they do.
>
I think that they might. Their webpage is so lamentably deficient
that anybody serious about buying a compiler would wonder why they are
being so "economical with the truth". Also, I cannot see why it would
be their interest not to be honest. Their compiler works fine, is
nicely packaged an has quite a competitive performance, as the latest
Polyhedron comparisons show.
They even give the impression that an open source plotting package is
specific to their compiler. Incidentally, I am so wedded to DISLIN,
for which the gfotran version is free, that I have never tried to
build plplot; has any body tried it?
Cheers
Paul