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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
<pkgmetadata>
	<maintainer type="person">
		<email>gentoo@aisha.cc</email>
		<name>Aisha Tammy</name>
	</maintainer>
	<maintainer type="project">
		<email>sci@gentoo.org</email>
		<name>Gentoo Science Project</name>
	</maintainer>	
	<longdescription>
	Forthon generates links between Fortran95 and Python. Python is a high
	level, object oriented, interactive and scripting language that allows
	a flexible and versatile interface to computational tools. The Forthon
	package generates the necessary wrapping code which allows access to
	the Fortran database and to the Fortran subroutines and
	functions. This provides a development package where the
	computationally intensive parts of a code can be written in efficient
	Fortran, and the high level controlling code can be written in the
	much more versatile Python language.
	</longdescription>
</pkgmetadata>