Thursday, September 25, 2014

Unix & stdlog

I wish Unix had also added stdlog.  It seems to be a basic part of building software, but we have to cram it into stderr, which makes no sense.  Someone got lazy.  Fortran had the right idea.

http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/~vb/mpp.html#stdunits

stdin, stdout, stderr, stdlog

function stdin()
  integer :: stdin
function stdout()
  integer :: stdout
function stderr()
  integer :: stderr
function stdlog()
  integer :: stdlog