Compiling Burkardt's SLATEC with gfortran

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@Beliavsky

LAPACK is still written in FORTRAN 77 I believe, but Matlab, R, and Python/SciPy have nice interfaces to call it, and there is also LAPACK95, a Fortran95 interface to LAPACK. Modern Fortran interfaces could also be created for SLATEC, and I think that would take less time than recreating the functionality from scratch. OTOH, other goals of a library may include
(1) Enabling the user to understand algorithms, possibly with a view to extending them
(2) Algorithms beyond what’s in the classic FORTRAN 77 libraries.
(3) Showcasing the features of Modern Fortran

I pretty much agree with that. I think the first realistic step to have something working in the near future is to standardize a way to interface any code, with these interfaces showing the three points you mention.

Then maybe in the farther future, I hope developers decide to develop their routines following the convention stated in the stdlib. Making them reusable and easy-to-use code.