Re: Unison

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Sri Ramkrishna <sri@aracnet.com> writes:

> > > 
> > > 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. ;)

fortran is just horribly painful for anything but numerical
computation. Certainly fortran 77.

IMO - the right way of writing a UI for fortran is to 
link the fortran together with C code, or better a scripting
language, to do the UI.

I did this a long time ago with Tcl/Tk, and f2c. It should be
much easier/nicer with g77, python, and PyGTK.

Regards,
                                        Owen