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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: the f2c program
Message-ID: <1990Aug14.175635.23412@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Aug11.202542.9891@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1990Aug12.005836.5356@zoo.toronto.edu> <937@gistdev.gist.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 90 17:56:35 GMT

In article <937@gistdev.gist.com> flint@gistdev.gist.com (Flint Pellett) writes:
>f2c seems to do a reasonable job of translating, if you don't want to
>have to work with/on the resulting C code, but only need to compile it.

Maintainable C code was specifically *not* an objective of the f2c project.
The intent is that you maintain the Fortran.  The f2c tech report comments
that producing maintainable C automatically seems to require some amount
of manual intervention even using commercial ($$$) translator programs.
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It is not possible to both understand  | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
and appreciate Intel CPUs. -D.Wolfskill|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry