[SciPy-Dev] [Numpy-discussion] ANN: Scipy 0.15.0 beta 1 release

[Sturla Molden]

Nathan Woods <charlesnwoods at gmail.com> wrote:

> Fortran’s ISO C bindings are a feature not present in Fortran 77, and so
> they cannot be counted on for something that relies on legacy compilers. 

The purpose of Carl Kleffner's MinGW toolchain was to avoid legacy
compilers. g77 was only used on Windows. 

At least last time this was discussed the conclusion was that we do not any
longer have a limitation to Fortran 77 in SciPy.


Sturla