From william@chemres.tn.cornell.edu  Tue Feb 16 08:28:40 1993
Message-Id: <199302161830.AA22126@oscsunb.ccl.net>
From: William Shirley <william@chemres.tn.cornell.edu>
Subject: MPW Fortran?
To: CHEMISTRY@ccl.net
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 93 13:28:40 EST


Which is best?

I am about to enter the world of MPW by porting a large amount of Fortran
code to the Macintosh. The code needs to stay in FORTRAN (rather than be
converted to C) so that it can be easily supported.  I know that the the
question of which is the best FORTRAN compiler? has come up before.  I would
like to find out which is currently generally considered to be the best.

Of the two MPW FORTRAN Compilers (Language Systems and Absoft),
which:

1.  is less bugie?
2.  is easier to use?
3.  has the better support tools (debugger)?
4.  has the better manuals?
5.  has the better telephone support?
6.  has more language extensions?
7.  is faster at compiling?
8.  produces faster more optimized code?
9.  supports math coprocessors in line?
10.  has special features?

Please include the version numbers of the compilers that you are familiar with
so that we are not comparing old apples and new oranges.

Thank you very much.
Please respond to me and I will summerize.

William Shirley
ws15@cornell.edu