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  • Re: Thoughts on simplyfortran?

    From Gary Scott@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Sun Jul 28 20:43:47 2024
    On 7/28/2024 6:35 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
    On Sun, 28 Jul 2024 10:27:30 -0400, dogyu wrote:

    I was wondering what are your thoughts on simplyfortran (using linux)

    Single-language development environments aren’t really the way to go nowadays.
    So long as they support the target language(s) adequately. Some are
    much more flexible in their language support tailor-ability than others.
    I've often been disappointed by those development environments shipped
    with compilers such as for Lahey and Absoft. I'm not especially fond of
    VS either, but there doesn't seem to be any real competitors that
    include all the essential features. The main problem with VS is MS continuously changing the "integration" interface such that vendors are
    always chasing their tails. I often need to supplement the editor with something more powerful like kedit but usually for when I need to make
    lots of string changes and a macro or a built in is more efficient. I
    just switch back and forth as needed from within VS. It automatically
    reloads the file when you exit any external editor.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to dogyu on Sun Jul 28 23:35:06 2024
    On Sun, 28 Jul 2024 10:27:30 -0400, dogyu wrote:

    I was wondering what are your thoughts on simplyfortran (using linux)

    Single-language development environments aren’t really the way to go nowadays.

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  • From dogyu@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 28 10:27:30 2024
    Hello,

    I was wondering what are your thoughts on simplyfortran (using linux)

    Thanks!

    dogyu

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to Gary Scott on Mon Jul 29 04:00:54 2024
    On Sun, 28 Jul 2024 20:43:47 -0500, Gary Scott wrote:

    I'm not especially fond of VS either, but there doesn't seem to be any
    real competitors that include all the essential features.

    Visual Studio is Windows-specific. It doesn’t do well for cross-platform development. Which is an essential feature nowadays.

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  • From baf@21:1/5 to dogyu on Sun Jul 28 21:39:45 2024
    On 7/28/2024 7:27 AM, dogyu wrote:
    Hello,

    I was wondering what are your thoughts on simplyfortran (using linux)

    Thanks!

    dogyu

    I have used Simplyfortran for the past 5 years or so on Linux and
    Windows. Works great. Thay keep up with the latest version of gfoprtran,
    have a very nice debugger interface, and their product support is the
    best of any software I have every used.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Tue Jul 30 02:05:20 2024
    On Mon, 29 Jul 2024 19:31:45 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:

    I have asked them to improve this but they have not gotten back to me.

    Submit a patch?

    Oh, wait, it’s proprietary ...

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  • From dogyu@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Sat Aug 3 03:34:29 2024
    Many thanks all for your replies and feedback. I generally use vscode
    for coding but I've been tinkering with fortran lately and I was just
    wondering if simpylfortran was a good tool.

    Cheers,

    dogyu

    On 7/29/24 20:31, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    On 7/28/2024 9:27 AM, dogyu wrote:
    Hello,

    I was wondering what are your thoughts on simplyfortran (using linux)

    Thanks!

    dogyu

    SimplyFortran is a good product for both Fortran and C++ mixed programs.

    The only problem is that the debugger user interface support is not very sophisticated.  If you want to break on the 4,000th call to a subroutine then you must run dbg directly as the IDE only support breaking on the
    first call to a subroutine.

    I have asked them to improve this but they have not gotten back to me.

    Lynn


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