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Re: Linking in Fortran to Mathematica

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg13641] Re: Linking in Fortran to Mathematica
• From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
• Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 18:27:43 +0800
• Organization: University of Western Australia
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victor_v at my-dejanews.com wrote:

> I wouldn't recommend to use Mathematica for a computationally intensive
> task. It would be better to replace fitting procedure with an external
> function, written in FORTRAN or C via MathLink.

Linking in Fortran is not as simple as linking in C.  However, using the
InterCall package for linking in Fortran or C (and numerical libraries
such as IMSL and NAG) into Mathematica makes this much simpler. If you
are interested, take a look at 

	http://www.physics.uwa.edu.au/ICB/

Cheers,
	Paul 
 
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