On 2/6/06, boblq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is for Stewart's benefit.
>
> So he can laugh at me. Well again.
>
> I offered to do some prototype work for a friend
> and colleague. He want some XML to native data
> format conversion for an application he has. I said
> sounds good to me. I needed the money anyway so
> I was ready to roll. Begging consultants don't always
> get to pick and choose and the end of the year is
> always a hard time so now is the time to get the
> gigs going.
>
> So he sends me the code.
>
> He wrote this stuff in Fortran over 25 years ago. It has
> been tested and audited and through all kinds of expensive
> QC programs that insure it produces correct output ...
> this makes it "sacred" code. They only audit and test the
> results though. We are not talking about looking at the
> code. So a gazillion dollars has been spent to make sure
> this code generates correct results. Nothing has really been
> spent on code maintenance.
>
> Along the way it has been from Fortran through RATFOR,
> and then through a RATFOR to C convertor, which emulates
> Fortran IO using curses, a subsystem that I have always
> thought was aptly named.
>
Is there any archive of the original Fortran? (of course not). The
current gcc package includes a Fortran compiler that started out in
life as Fortran-to-C As I understand it, it now compiles to the same
intermediate language that the C compiler produces.
carl
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