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From: trh@ukc.ac.uk (T.R.Hopkins)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: has anybody used SPAG?
Message-ID: <244@beech.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 12 Feb 91 23:06:25 GMT
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In article <515@cfa.HARVARD.EDU> murison@cfa.HARVARD.EDU (Marc A. Murison, RG) writes:
>Has anyone used SPAG, the spaghetti code unmangler? After looking
>around a bit, I get the impression that this program is quite 
>flexible and can do just about anything one could want done to
>ugly code. What I would really like to know is that if I run 
>my 100,000 line fortran 66 monster through it will the monster 
>still give the right answers? (I know it will be a lot more 
>readable!) Any comments on good or bad experiences, idiosyncrasies, 
>etc. will be greatly appreciated!
>Thanks,
>
>Marc A. Murison   Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
>murison@cfacx2.harvard.edu
>
>NOTE: use this ^^^^ address. The one in the header will bomb.

I've used spag on vast amounts of code and  have thoroughly checked
that the new version produces the same results as the old; I haven't had a
failure yet. The only thing I don't like is the formatter that's embedded
in spag -- I much prefer the Toolpack polish (in fact I usually put the
output of spag through a series of Toolpack tools to tidy up the source).

Tim