Re: Ada95 + FORTRAN 77

[gisle@apal.ii.uib.no (Gisle S�lensminde)]

In article <m3hfl8ihzd.fsf@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no>, Preben Randhol wrote:
>
>Hello I'm quite new to Ada95. Have started reading John Barnes:
>Programming in Ada 95.
>
>I have read (think it was on the net) that one can bind Fortran and
>Ada95 together. Does anybody know if one can use Fortran 77?
>
>I have a calculation program written in FORTRAN 77 and want to just
>make a graphical interface to it so that it will be easier to do
>calculations. I want to use Ada95 and GTK+. So I'm wondering if
>anybody know of a working example for the Ada95 - FORTRAN 77
>connection (don't have to be any GUI) that I could look at?

There is a binding to the LAPACK Fortran library at the contrib area at
the main site for the GNAT public version.

ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/contrib/lapack-ada/

>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>PS: Ada's verbose syntax threw me back first time I looked at it (a
>year ago or so), but after meddling a bit with C++ I see why verbose
>is better. Also I didn't get GNAT the compiler working on Linux back
>then, now it works like charm :-)
>
>-- 
>Preben Randhol             oO     "Don't think about domination,  think
>[randhol@pvv.org]        .`  ;     about freedom, it doesn't dominate."
>[www.pvv.org/~randhol/]   \ G                  -- RMS, LinuxWorld 1999.
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