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From: DVL@PSUVM.BITNET (Roger Christman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Educating FORTRAN programmers to use C
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Date: 19 Jan 90 14:20:54 GMT
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In article <21604@unix.cis.pitt.edu>, yahoo@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Kenneth L Moore)
says:
>>How do you convince your managment that it's time to throw away the
>>ancient FORTRAN 4 when there are thousands and thousands of lines of that
>>crap :-( ?!
>
>    .... While C gives many advantages, the cost of retraining, the
>politics of change, and the cost of updating code might not be worth it.
>approved. (a very costly process)
>
It so happens that at the moment I'm working on a project to do just that:
Translate ancient FORTRAN 66 programs into some legible form of C.
Neat, huh?  If you can find it, I made a posting to this effect on
December 7, 1989 on comp.lang.c and comp.lang.fortran.

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