At 07:39 2017-08-31, Jean MAURICE jsm.maurice@wanadoo.fr wrote:

These last few days, I am smiling when I read Profox : I thought I was the only 'Foxil' still working with Foxpro DOS (I have an app working on a Compaq PC that is 23 years old !) and I am an 'expert' of FORTRAN : when I was in university it was one the few languages available (with COBOL and a little later C).

My app is 20. She is a sweet young VFP thing. Is your app single?

I still work with FORTRAN : one of my client is EDF (French national Electricity Delivery). They where building simulations with 'R' (A new language easy to use but .... slow). As a test, I translate one of them to FORTRAN : running time went from 20 minutes to less than 3 seconds (on a multicore machine with FORTRAN MPI). Since then, I translate a lot and they began to build large simulations (one hour of FORTRAN !).

I have two drawbacks :

• I can't 'teach' the new scientists that working with integer is

a lot quicker than working with real numbers

I have seen that. Too little of computing internals were taught in my degree.

• the FORTRAN exe run in a 'dos window' within Windows XP and I

have no access to the energy saver parameters. So, after 15 minutes, the PC goes to stand by mode because Windows is not able to detect that a 'DOS' exe is running. So I bought a 'rotating fan', fixed the mouse on it so it moves continously right and left and ... windows stay 'alive' !!

Going to stand-by is a solution that has become a problem.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko