Comment on PETITION TO RETIRE FORTRAN (at JPL)

[John Chludzinski]

Wondering whether gfortran with its support for "modern" Fortran ('90,
'95, 2003, 2008) was changing the prospects for Fortran.

On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Bob Deen <Bob.Deen@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
> There's no central authority at JPL that tells us what languages we can or
> can't use.  Specific projects may have such rules (often based on what
> languages they choose to support... it is some effort for CM and builds to
> implement a new language) but people typically use whatever they need to get
> the job done.
>
> In my specific area we have a lot of Fortran (77) code.  It is somewhat
> discouraged for new code, and we haven't implemented support in the builds
> for any Fortran 90 or later features, but it's not prohibited and we use
> gfortran all the time to build lots of production code.
>
> Wondering why this came up?
>
> -Bob Deen
> JPL Multimission Image Processing Lab
>
>
>
>
> On 10/8/13 3:01 PM, John Chludzinski wrote:
>>
>> Does that mean Fortran remains at JPL for new projects?
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 5:55 PM, N.M. Maclaren <nmm1@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Oct 8 2013, John Chludzinski wrote:
>>>
>>>> Does anyone know what became of this?
>>>>
>>>> http://www.fortranstatement.com/Site/responses.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The petition got retired?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Nick Maclaren.
>>>
>>
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