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Author(s) -
Greenberg Michael,
Lowrie Karen
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
risk analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 130
eISSN - 1539-6924
pISSN - 0272-4332
DOI - 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2009.01332.x
Subject(s) - operations research , computer science , population , reuse , plague (disease) , confusion , theme (computing) , risk analysis (engineering) , management science , sociology , geography , medicine , psychology , engineering , ecology , demography , biology , archaeology , psychoanalysis , operating system
I visited the "Computer Faire" in San Francisco recently. This event, which was started as a local showcase a few years ago, has expanded almost beyond the bounds of one of the largest conference centers (Brooks Hall) in the San Francisco area. I spent an entire afternoon asking the question, "Does your PC have a Fortran 77 compiler?" In reply, I got a spectrum of replies, promises, nonsense, un-information, and a little bit of information. One implementation of ANSI Subset Fortran 77 is rather widely available, but of course it takes some probing in most cases to identify the fact that a particular machine runs that specific version. Another implementation is available for 8-bit micros, but it seems to have some serious deficiencies in handling of REAL numbers: although it purports to be completely ANSI-78 standard conforming, one fellow who seems to know tells me that it ignores the "storage sequence" rules for integers, reals, double precision and complex numbers, and logicals.