17 Dec
2021
17 Dec
'21
5:41 a.m.
Clem,
I agree with everything you said.
I think the operative word here is "playing". I'm not aware of anyone who
would use either 4.3BSD or efl for real work. It's just fun to mess around
with some things from the somewhat distant past that we missed along the
way.
For me, right now, that's BSD, which I used at Naval Postgraduate School in
the mid-80s, but never after. After I left grad school, all I was exposed
to was SVR2-4 and then OSF/1 and then Solaris from the mid 90's on. BSD is
fun.
Tom
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Tom Manos
Vivat Jesus
KO4ENQ
On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 12:56 PM Tom Manos <tom.manos(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm late to the party here. Although I'm a
gray hair, I didn't start using
UNIX until the early '80s, and though I've seen, and been curious about
efl, I've never used it. Fortran 4 was my first high-level language in
college in the '70s.
That said, I do remember efl being on an early PC based UNIX - Microport
SVR2. On later Microport UNIXen it was gone, but I can't remember whether
it disappeared on SVR3 or 4.
I currently play with 4.3BSD Quasijarus system on simh, which has efl.
What a fun system to play with! Maybe I'll give efl a try if I can find
enough docs to grok it.
Tom
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Tom Manos
KO4ENQ
On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 3:49 AM <arnold(a)skeeve.com> wrote:
Hi TUHS folks!
After having reincarnated ratfor, I am wondering about Stuart Feldman's
efl (extended fortran language). It was a real compiler that let you
define structs, and generated more or less readable Fortran code.
I have the impression that it was pretty cool, but that it just didn't
catch on. So:
- Did anyone here ever use it personally?
- Is my impression that it didn't catch on correct? Or am I ignorant?
Thoughts etc. welcome. :-)
Thanks,
Arnold