Christopher Barker wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I have been working on >> f2py rewrite to support wrapping Fortran 90 types among other F90 >> constructs and as a result we have almost a complete Fortran parser in >> Python. It is relatively easy to use this parser to automatically convert >> Fortran 77 codes that we have in scipy to C codes whenever no Fortran >> compiler is available. > > Cool! > > How is the different/better than the old standby f2c? > > One issue with f2c is that it required a pretty good set of libs to > support stuff that Fortran had that C didn't -- complex numbers come to > mind, I'm not sure what else was is in libf2c. > > In fact, I've often wondered why scipy doesn't use f2c.
Generally speaking, g77 was always more likely to work on more platforms with less hassle. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
