> On 06/18/2026 5:48 AM AEST ben via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote:
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> That is all well and good. until find a dusty card deck with FORTRAN IV.
Recently I submitted this lovely spaghetti bowl of FORTRAN IV with computed
GOTO garnishings a few hundred-line chunks at a time to Gemini, as I was using
the free version. (I removed the trailing line numbers first):
https://bitsavers.org/components/fairchild/f8/cross-assembler/f8_xasm.for
It ingested it, figured out by itself it was an assembler, and at my prompts
produced a Python then a structured C# version.
Along the way it asked if I wanted to add conditional assembly, macros and a
bunch of other things and I just kept saying yes to the prompts. It produced
samples of test code for many of the steps.
The result still needs work but I was fairly impressed/bemused by it.
