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Open Watcom 1.0 Released

Posted by michael on from the competition-is-good dept.

JoshRendlesham writes "The Open Watcom C/C++ and FORTRAN 1.0 compilers have been officially released. The source, and binaries for Win32 and OS/2 systems, are available. This release also means that outside developers can join and contribute to the project." Or if you prefer, gcc is up to 3.2.2.

2 of 287 comments (clear)

  1. Re:cool ! that's great news by Q+Who · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Yeah! I have such problems too -- just today I wrote this trivial hello-world program and it just won't print anything!

    #include ""

    int main()
    {
    std::cout << "" << std::endl;
    }
  2. Oh, and *I'm* Ignorant? by occamboy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I suppose that writing in FORTRAN is marginally better than writing in C or Assembler. But... there really are better options: I base this on 20+ years of writing sucessful applications using a range of platforms and languages. (And I'm an EE orignally, have designed ICs, so I think I know a bit about technical applications).

    I suppose that the continued proliferation of FORTRAN is a symptom of why the pace of significant new scientific discovery has dropped off tremendously in the last 20-30 years. No major medical breakthroughs -- we've made almost 0 progress in curing cancer, a little in curing heart disease. No major breakthroughs in physics that I can recall.

    The only real advances have been in technology -- and technology industries don't use FORTRAN, to my knowledge.