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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
Newsgroups: net.lang.f77
Subject: Re: Translator from Rat4 to F77?
Message-ID: <361@moncol.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Jun-85 10:59:53 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  5 10:59:53 1985
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>From: wcs@ho95b.UUCP (Bill Stewart)
>Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
>Message-ID: <453@ho95b.UUCP>
>
>Assuming that by "Rat4" you mean the Ratfor language, the software you want
>is called "ratfor", and lives on System 3, System V, 4.1BSD, and probably
>4.2BSD(?).  It takes an input language consisting of old-fortran plus some
>decent control structures (if-then-else, while, C-style for(;;),...)
>and handles free-format input and some other preprocessor stuff.
>The output is vanilla fortran 77, assuming that the input wasn't fortran-66
>dependent (e.g. one-trip do-loops, etc.).

Hmmm... Has Ratfor been improved in the last few years? The Ratfor which
came with our v7 system produces FORTRAN 66 as its output, not f77.

This means that the resulting program is often a maze of GOTO's.


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