(j3.2006) (SC22WG5.4210) [ukfortran] RE: 43 Fortran compilers

[Van Snyder]

On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 12:57 -0800, Loren P Meissner wrote:
> Wasn't PFORT a Stu Feldman creation?

Barbary Ryder.

See
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/113444401/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

... Received: 8 April 1974

> Loren P Meissner
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> 
> On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 11:43 -0800, Keith Bierman wrote:
> > Of course, there are people who aren't trying to write portable code.
> > They often live to regret it ;>
> 
> In the early 1970's, when I first joined the computational mathematics group
> at JPL, we urged the Voyager project not to use every cool nonstandard
> feature of the Univac Fortran compiler or the even more coll Athena Fortran
> compiler -- and they had as many as any other of the era.
> We urged them to run their code through PFORT, a Fortran 66 portability
> checker from Bell Labs.  They ignored us.  Their codes were trapped on
> Univac 1100/2200 architecture because they couldn't get funding to convert
> it.  Their ClearPath 2200 went out the door about two years ago, more than
> 30 years after the Voyager launch and more than 35 years after we warned
> about portability.
> 
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