On Thursday, 1994-08-25  Terry Brown wrote to David Noon about
"fortran programming under" as follows:

TB> Thanks for the reply David.  Do you have experience using 
TB> the graphics library included with MS Fortran 5.1 under 
TB> OS/2?  Or are your programs character based?  Tnx. :)  Terry

Hi Terry,

I haven't tried the graphics library. I just use FORTRAN for
arithmetic, with the results printed as characters. If I were plotting
graphs I would use PL/I and PM. Indeed, I tend to use PL/I more than
FORTRAN for my own use. The main thing FORTRAN has is that it runs
FAPI, so the one .EXE can run under DOS or OS/2. This is handy for
writing code for the great unwashed (i.e. DOS users).

Regards

Dave

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