At 07:39 2017-08-31, Jean MAURICE <jsm.maurice@wanadoo.fr> wrote:

>These last few days, I am smiling when I read Profox : I thought I

>was the only 'Foxil' still working with Foxpro DOS (I have an app

>working on a Compaq PC that is 23 years old !) and I am an 'expert'

>of FORTRAN : when I was in university it was one the few languages

>available (with COBOL and a little later C).

My app is 20. She is a sweet young VFP thing. Is your app single?

>I still work with FORTRAN : one of my client is EDF (French national

>Electricity Delivery). They where building simulations with 'R' (A

>new language easy to use but .... slow). As a test, I translate one

>of them to FORTRAN : running time went from 20 minutes to less than

>3 seconds (on a multicore machine with FORTRAN MPI). Since then, I

>translate a lot and they began to build large simulations (one hour

>of FORTRAN !).

>

>I have two drawbacks :

> - I can't 'teach' the new scientists that working with integer is

> a lot quicker than working with real numbers

I have seen that. Too little of computing internals were

taught in my degree.

> - the FORTRAN exe run in a 'dos window' within Windows XP and I

> have no access to the energy saver parameters. So, after 15

> minutes, the PC goes to stand by mode because Windows is not able

> to detect that a 'DOS' exe is running. So I bought a 'rotating

> fan', fixed the mouse on it so it moves continously right and left

> and ... windows stay 'alive' !!

Going to stand-by is a solution that has become a problem.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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