http://www.os2world.com/content/view/18842/2/Posted by Martin Iturbide - Tuesday, 31 March 2009
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As a student, I'd really like to have a Fortran 90/95 (or later... Fortran 2008 ?) compiler for OS/2... I think there were commercial compilers for Fortran 90 in the middle of last decade but they have been discontinued long ago and cannot be found anywhere now.
Scientific software for OS/2 is still lacking. Octave is not bad but does not measure up to Matlab in terms of usability and possibilities, and the syntax is not always exactly the same, which does not help. There is no more Maple or Mathematica for OS/2 (The last Maple for OS/2 was Maple V R4.x). However, both Matlab and Maple now use Java internally, at least for some functions (when Matlab has some processing crash, you can often see a block of Java errors...). Maybe it's time for Serenity to also see eCS as a scientific platform and get agreements with Mathworks and Maplesoft to help make a new port to the OS/2 platform.
I use Matlab daily at my university, be it for research of for preparing homeworks, and without Matlab eCS is not viable for me as a scientific platform.
BTW: was Lahey for OS/2 a Fortran 90 ? I got the floppies for it (from eBay), but I am either missing one of them, or one of them does not work properly, and I have never been able to install it properly. If someone has a copy of this piece of software, please PM me...