-=> Maurice Kinal wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 MK> -={ Wednesday, 25 May 2016, 04:15:23 +1000 }=-

 MK> Hey Tony!

 TL> Yeah. I'm going back to Pascal, because for me, it's going to be a
 TL> lesser learning curve, having done it before. :)

 MK> If that is all it takes then for sure I'd have taken up fortran decades
 MK> ago. However the real reason I didn't was that all the f77 source I had
 MK> back then I found similar and often better apps already working in
 MK> linux so there wasn't a need to.  So far most holes I have found in
 MK> linux can be filled in by linking existing apps together using bash.
 MK> If not then I still have gcc close at hand.

True, you can glue a lot together with shell scripts, but I have some need for
small, but specialised programs that have to be compiled (talking on sockets,
etc).  What I'm currently using is far from satisfactory, hacked together with
some C source I found on the net and shell scripts.  The scripts are fine for
the most part, but the C isn't really what I wanted and sometimes causes
issues.  But I don't know enough C to tweak it.  


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