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From: leipold@eplrx7.uucp (Walt Leipold)
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Subject: Re: NAG Fortran 90 announcement
Keywords: Fortran 90
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Date: 27 Jun 91 17:31:20 GMT
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In article <26334@lanl.gov> jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>The thing that's most disappointing about NAG's implementation is that
>it's a preprocessor to C.  (They claim that it's a compiler because it
>does "global" (throughout a whole program unit) analysis, but it still
>outputs C as it's "object" code.)  

I like to draw the somewhat fuzzy line between "compiler" and "translator"
based on the relative "level" of the source and target languages:

	source level > target level --> "compiler"
	source level = target level --> "translator"
	source level < target level --> "decompiler"

Thus, I'd have to say that NAG has come up with a decompiler :-).

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