Re: Re: Fortran Users! Is there a better way to do this?

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:39 AM, John R. Macdonald <[email protected]>wrote:

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> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On
> Behalf Of *Gary Lee Phillips
> *Sent:* dimanche 16 mai 2010 15:07
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> *Subject:* [turnkey-mvs] Re: Fortran Users! Is there a better way to do
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> Hi Ron.
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> Another approach would be to use unformatted I/O, and write your
> values out to a temporary file. Read that file back in with another
> language that does more efficient I/O and do your printing at that
> time. So Fortran does the calculations and writes the numbers to a
> tape or temp file, which you pass to a second step written in COBOL or
> PL/I that formats the report.
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> --Gary
> Many many moons ago (circa 1968-69 IIRC) I worked with a contractor who
> vetted his input using assembler, did his computations with FORTAN
> programs and printed the results with RPG.
> His philosophy was 'use the most appropriate tool for the task at hand'.
> But it is not always easy to convince TPTB that's the way to go.
> John
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> Another interesting take.

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