Path: utzoo!censor!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Wanted:  RATFOR, EFL or other FORTRAN preprocessor
Message-ID: <888@becker.UUCP>
Date: 20 Sep 89 14:18:55 GMT
References: <785@uvicctr.UVic.ca.UUCP> <3569@deimos.cis.ksu.edu>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <3569@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> mac@harris.cis.ksu.edu (Myron A. Calhoun) writes:
|[...]
|But I don't know why you'd want a preprocessor for FORTRAN 77.
|SPARKS was written back in the days when FORTRAN 66 didn't have
|any block structure; now that FORTRAN 77 does, preprocessors
|seem kind of unnecessary.

	I once went to the trouble of rewriting RATFOR
	on the IBM mainframe specifically to make it
	output FORTRAN 77 as object language.

	The reason was to take advantage of the much
	nicer syntax of RATFOR, and to provide a language
	environment which was closer to C in form, so that
	eventual migration would be comparatively painless.

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