vnpandey has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Monks.. Is it possible to call fortran programmes through perl?? if no can somebody please tell me what is the conceptual reason for this??

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Re: fortran!!
by cwest (Friar) on Jul 21, 2000 at 21:55 UTC
    of course 
    `fortran.program`;
#or
system(fortran.program);
#or even
use Shell;
$ENV{PATH}.=':/path/to';
fortran_prog();

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RE: fortran!!
by Russ (Deacon) on Jul 22, 2000 at 01:15 UTC
    I would like to ask a related question: Could someone embed FORTRAN code using the XS/SWIG technique? Since gcc (as I understand it) has a FORTRAN back-end, it could compile fortran to a library just as easily as C, right?

    How might this work?

    Russ
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