Re: Unison

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

> On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Sri Ramkrishna wrote:
> 
> > > > Wait till the GTK/COBOL bindings. :-)
> > > 
> > > Naaa.
> > > 
> > > I have design notes for a set of working FORTRAN GTK bindings.
> > 
> > That would rock.  There is a lot of legacy fortran code that could really
> > benefit with being able to use GTK as a toolbox.  I think it would be
> > quite cool.  Using fortran as a scripting language for scientific
> > calculations would be interesting if not twisted reason for the
> > bindings. ;)
> 
> Of course, the same arguments apply to COBOL binding(more so, there is a
> lot more COBOL than FORTRAN).

THis is true especially for accounting type software.  I haven't done
cobol since school.  But I know that in teh 80s there were lots of fortran
software written in academia especially in the engineering schools.  In
any case the more bindings the merrier.

	sri