Fortran 77 Sockets

[Yegg]

Does anyone know if there are any Fortran library files (or other sources) that support any kind of sockets? I've been looking around for a while but the few that I found don't support Fortran 77.

[Lenny]

Although I don't know much about the language itself, I don't think you'll be finding anything as high level as that given it's age.  In 1977 (first appearance of Fortran 77), networking wasn't a very popular topic if it  even existed.

Might want to look into the newer standards of Fortran instead.  Not sure how active most are in using a 28 year old standard   There's probably a much larger dev community using the two year old standard.

[Yegg]

I see. I still want to continue using Fotran 77 so I searched google for a while and I found Pyfort. It can convert Python files to Fortran (77), and vice versa. I was wondering if it would be possible to convert the Python socket module to Fortran 77 code. My only concern was that the Python socket module uses _ssl.pyd and _socket.pyd. I'm not sure if Pyfort would somehow translate those files or if it would read from them. Any comments?

[Topaz]

back them up in case of failure and try it yourself?

[Yoni]

In 1977 (first appearance of Fortran 77), networking wasn't a very popular topic if it  even existed.

The ARPANET has been up for several years already in 1977. The earliest reference I found for "Interent Protocol" is in RFC 760 - January 1980. Ethernet has been around since 1972.

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As for API... Berkeley sockets are from 1983.

[Yegg]

I guess I'll just switch to Fortran 95 considering 77 will be too hard to create sockets in. Plus Fortran 95 has tons of more options.