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Re: Hurst



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Hi,

I think Borland is giving away their C++ compiler for free, check out
borland.com.

Etienne.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Haferman" <haferman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <lissen@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, 24 June 2000 3:43
Subject: Re: Hurst


>
> Lionel,
>
> Fortran is very alive and quite well.  The amount of Fortran legacy code
> around will likely ensure its existence into the next millenium,
> especially for scientific code.
>
> There is a free Fortran compiler available for personal use that
> will run under various flavors of windows at
> http://www.salford.co.uk
>
> I've been able to run most well written Fortran programs just
> fine on my PC running Windows.
>
> I know of at least 1 free C compiler out there that will run
> on Windows, but don't know of any free C++ compilers.
>
> I would hazard a guess that you should be able to get Tisean
> to run just fine under Windows, but you'll never know unless
> you try.
>
> Good luck,
> Jeff
>
>
> In metastock, Lionel wrote:
> >Walter:
> >
> >Thanks for our posting and the address for the Tisean program.
> >
> >Your trader must have a Ph.D. in math or statistics. Lyapunov  methods
are
> >neither for the lighthearted nor the non-mathematician.
> >
> >While Fortran is a very good computer language, I didn't realize that
> >Fortran compilers were still available.  Are they available for the PC?.
> >
> >Tisean has been compiled under Linux, it has not been compiled under
> >windows.  While the program is written mostly in C++ and partly in
Fortran;
> >even if I had both compilers, it probably would not completely compile
under
> >windows, that is it wouldn't run. In order to run this program, I think
that
> >it would be very desirable to have the same version of Linux that was
used
> >to compile the program, and the same or newer editions of the same C++
and
> >Fortran compilers.
> >
> >One of the big advantages of the Windows system is that programs compiled
> >under Windows will run on almost all PCs running Windows. (Occasionally a
> >Windows program will not run a few machines). At centers like a
university
> >or other computation centers, changes creep into the operating system
that
> >can make it difficult to port programs to other sites.
> >
> >Having said all this; is there a version, compiled or not, that will run
> >under windows?
> >
> >Lionel Issen
> >lissen@xxxxxxxxx
>