I'm late to the party here. Although I'm a gray hair, I didn't start using UNIX until the early '80s, and though I've seen, and been curious about efl, I've never used it. Fortran 4 was my first high-level language in college in the '70s.

That said, I do remember efl being on an early PC based UNIX - Microport SVR2. On later Microport UNIXen it was gone, but I can't remember whether it disappeared on SVR3 or 4.

I currently play with 4.3BSD Quasijarus system on simh, which has efl. What a fun system to play with! Maybe I'll give efl a try if I can find enough docs to grok it.

Tom

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Tom Manos

KO4ENQ

On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 3:49 AM <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:

Hi TUHS folks!

After having reincarnated ratfor, I am wondering about Stuart Feldman's
efl (extended fortran language). It was a real compiler that let you
define structs, and generated more or less readable Fortran code.

I have the impression that it was pretty cool, but that it just didn't
catch on. So:

- Did anyone here ever use it personally?

- Is my impression that it didn't catch on correct? Or am I ignorant?

Thoughts etc. welcome. :-)

Thanks,

Arnold